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title: Unseen he stole out when twilight fell, and for many days he wandere… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unseen he stole out when twilight fell, and for many days he wandered over mountains and through forests and valleys without knowing where he was going or what he should do. Who acts: Unseen, twilight, prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 96

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Unseen he stole out when twilight fell, and for many days he wandered over mountains and through forests and valleys without knowing where he was going or what he should do.

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**Who acts:** Unseen, twilight, prince · **What happens:** steal out, fall, wander, know, go, do · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unseen, twilight, prince), 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:pg2435:20:96
# text = Unseen he stole out when twilight fell, and for many days he wandered over mountains and through forests and valleys without knowing where he was going or what he should do.
1	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	twilight	twilight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal out** | past | Unseen |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | twilight |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** | past | prince |  |  | mountains and forests and valleys | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | should | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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