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title: At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everythi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsy-turvy, put sugar in the salt-cellars, pepper into the beer, and was up to all kinds of pranks. Who acts: servants, bed. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, with its dependency tree
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# English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 2

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At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsy-turvy, put sugar in the salt-cellars, pepper into the beer, and was up to all kinds of pranks.

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**Who acts:** servants, bed · **What happens:** go, turn, put, be · **To what, where:** bed, everything, sugar, salt cellars

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:44:2
# text = At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsy-turvy, put sugar in the salt-cellars, pepper into the beer, and was up to all kinds of pranks.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	topsy	topsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	turvy	turvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the servants |  |  | bed | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn** | would | bed | everything |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent everything=Theme turvy=Result |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | bed *not said here* | sugar |  | the salt cellars and pepper |  | into the beer | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme in cellar=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to all kinds; of pranks | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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