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title: It was quite late when he reached it, but he could discover no light… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was quite late when he reached it, but he could discover no light anywhere, and walked almost right through it without finding a house where he could turn in. Who acts: town, Luck. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 70

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It was quite late when he reached it, but he could discover no light anywhere, and walked almost right through it without finding a house where he could turn in.

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**Who acts:** town, Luck · **What happens:** be, reach, discover, walk, find, turn in · **To what, where:** town, light, house

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, Luck), 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:pg2435:2:70
# text = It was quite late when he reached it, but he could discover no light anywhere, and walked almost right through it without finding a house where he could turn in.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | town |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Luck | town |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **discover** | could | Luck | no light |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Luck *not said here* |  |  | town |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **find** | gerund | Luck *not said here* | a house |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
| 6 | **turn in** | could | Luck |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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