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title: He did not quite trust the gnome’s promises of safety, and was in su… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not quite trust the gnome’s promises of safety, and was in such haste to find himself once more in the light of day that he looked neither to the right nor the left, and could not afterwards remember whether the walls and pillars had sparkled with jewels or not. Who acts: Peter, light, walls,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 39

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He did not quite trust the gnome’s promises of safety, and was in such haste to find himself once more in the light of day that he looked neither to the right nor the left, and could not afterwards remember whether the walls and pillars had sparkled with jewels or not.

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**Who acts:** Peter, light, walls, gnome · **What happens:** not trust, be, find, look, not remember, sparkle · **To what, where:** promises, such haste, Peter, safety, day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, light, walls, gnome), 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:pg2435:17:39
# text = He did not quite trust the gnome’s promises of safety, and was in such haste to find himself once more in the light of day that he looked neither to the right nor the left, and could not afterwards remember whether the walls and pillars had sparkled with jewels or not.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
44	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	ccomp	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | past · do-support | Peter | the gnome's promises of safety |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | such haste |  | in the light of day | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | past | the light of day |  |  |  |  | to the right nor the left; neither *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **remember** | could |  |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **sparkle** | past · perfect | the walls and pillars |  |  |  |  | with jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=Theme |
| 7 | **promise** |  | the gnome | safety |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 8 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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