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title: At the bottom the king found a narrow grassy ledge by the brink of t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the bottom the king found a narrow grassy ledge by the brink of the stream, across which the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave shed a broad beam of uncertain light. Who acts: king, light. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger T
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 20

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At the bottom the king found a narrow grassy ledge by the brink of the stream, across which the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave shed a broad beam of uncertain light.

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**Who acts:** king, light · **What happens:** find, shed, beam · **To what, where:** narrow grassy ledge, bottom, broad beam, uncertain light

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, light), 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:pg3282:33:20
# text = At the bottom the king found a narrow grassy ledge by the brink of the stream, across which the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave shed a broad beam of uncertain light.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the king | a narrow grassy ledge |  | the bottom |  | by the brink of the stream | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ledge=Theme at bottom=Asset |
| 2 | **shed** | participle | the light from a rude lantern in the mount of a cave | a broad beam of uncertain light |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beam=Source |
| 3 | **beam** |  |  | uncertain light |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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 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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