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title: Until the world-lighting sun stood above his head in the zenith he d… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Until the world-lighting sun stood above his head in the zenith he did not take his eyes off the deer; suddenly it disappeared behind some rising ground, and with all his search he could not find any further trace of it. Who acts: Prince, place. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 38

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Until the world-lighting sun stood above his head in the zenith he did not take his eyes off the deer; suddenly it disappeared behind some rising ground, and with all his search he could not find any further trace of it.

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**Who acts:** Prince, place · **What happens:** stand, not take, disappear, rise, not find, search · **To what, where:** head, eyes, deer, rising ground, further trace

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, place), 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:pg3282:1:38
# text = Until the world-lighting sun stood above his head in the zenith he did not take his eyes off the deer; suddenly it disappeared behind some rising ground, and with all his search he could not find any further trace of it.
1	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	zenith	zenith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	amod	_	_
30	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
42	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | Prince's head | until the lighting sun | in the zenith | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above head=Location |
| 2 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | Prince | Prince's eyes |  | the deer |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off deer=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | place |  |  | some rising ground |  | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **find** | could | Prince | any further trace of place |  |  |  | with Prince's search | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
| 6 | **search** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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