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title: Trembling they sat till the darkness fled and the light shone again… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Trembling they sat till the darkness fled and the light shone again upon them, but in the place where they were wont to see cattle, and herds, and dwellings, they beheld neither house nor beast, nor man nor smoke; neither was any one remaining in the green place save these four only. Who acts: darkn
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 7

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Trembling they sat till the darkness fled and the light shone again upon them, but in the place where they were wont to see cattle, and herds, and dwellings, they beheld neither house nor beast, nor man nor smoke; neither was any one remaining in the green place save these four only.

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**Who acts:** darkness, light, lands, neither, one · **What happens:** tremble, sit, flee, shine, be, see · **To what, where:** herds, place, cattle, house, one, green place

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, light, lands, neither), 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:pg3454:35:7
# text = Trembling they sat till the darkness fled and the light shone again upon them, but in the place where they were wont to see cattle, and herds, and dwellings, they beheld neither house nor beast, nor man nor smoke; neither was any one remaining in the green place save these four only.
1	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc:preconj	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	39	cc	_	_
39	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	42	cc	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	44	cc	_	_
44	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
46	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
50	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	57	det	_	_
57	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	obj	_	_
58	only	only	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  | herds |  | the place |  | dwellings *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the darkness |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | past | the light |  |  |  | again | upon lands *= land* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | lands *= land* |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | lands *= land* *not said here* | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus |
| 7 | **behold** | past | lands *= land* | house nor beast |  |  |  | man nor smoke *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is a** | past | neither | any one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **remain** | gerund | any one *not said here* |  |  | the green place |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 10 | **save** | present | any one | this four |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme |

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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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