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title: Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes. Who acts: Peter, magic root, last, root. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 37

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Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Peter, magic root, last, root · **What happens:** press, come, go, burrow, do, lie · **To what, where:** little hollow, earth, work, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, magic root, last, root), 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:pg2435:17:37
# text = Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	burrowing	burrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nsubj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
42	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | Peter |  |  |  | then |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on eagerly=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the little hollow |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hollow=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burrow** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  | like a mole | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into earth=Location |
| 5 | **do** | past | the magic root | root's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 6 | **lie** | past | last |  |  | Peter's eyes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location |
| 7 | **work** |  | root |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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