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title: For some time the prince wandered up and down peering into the botto… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time the prince wandered up and down peering into the bottom of the stream, but though the water was very clear, nothing could he see of the ring. Who acts: prince, water, nothing. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 52

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For some time the prince wandered up and down peering into the bottom of the stream, but though the water was very clear, nothing could he see of the ring.

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**Who acts:** prince, water, nothing · **What happens:** wander, peer, be, see

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, water, nothing), 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:pg2435:21:52
# text = For some time the prince wandered up and down peering into the bottom of the stream, but though the water was very clear, nothing could he see of the ring.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the prince |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **peer** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the bottom of the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bottom=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | could | nothing |  |  |  |  | of the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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