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title: The moon was bright, and for some hours he kept steadily on, not kno… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon was bright, and for some hours he kept steadily on, not knowing how many miles he had gone, nor even feeling tired. Who acts: moon, sky. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 91

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The moon was bright, and for some hours he kept steadily on, not knowing how many miles he had gone, nor even feeling tired.

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**Who acts:** moon, sky · **What happens:** be, keep, not know, go, feel · **To what, where:** many miles

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, sky), 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:pg3454:25:91
# text = The moon was bright, and for some hours he kept steadily on, not knowing how many miles he had gone, nor even feeling tired.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | sky |  |  |  | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | sky *not said here* | many miles |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | sky | many miles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund | sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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