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title: For three days he lay in utter darkness; then the light began to com… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For three days he lay in utter darkness; then the light began to come back, till soon he saw as well as ever. Who acts: prince, light. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 40

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For three days he lay in utter darkness; then the light began to come back, till soon he saw as well as ever.

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**Who acts:** prince, light · **What happens:** lie in, begin, come back, see · **To what, where:** utter darkness

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, light), 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:pg2435:15:40
# text = For three days he lay in utter darkness; then the light began to come back, till soon he saw as well as ever.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie in** | past | prince | utter darkness |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darkness=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the light |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come back** | to-infinitive | the light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ever=Attribute |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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