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title: Stealthily the young man crept along the passage, pausing now and th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stealthily the young man crept along the passage, pausing now and then to make sure that no man was following him, and entered the king’s chamber. Who acts: young man, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23

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Stealthily the young man crept along the passage, pausing now and then to make sure that no man was following him, and entered the king’s chamber.

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**Who acts:** young man, man · **What happens:** creep, pause, make, follow, enter · **To what, where:** passage, end, chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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:pg3454:9:23
# text = Stealthily the young man crept along the passage, pausing now and then to make sure that no man was following him, and entered the king’s chamber.
1	Stealthily	stealthily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | the young man |  |  | the passage |  | stealthily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pause** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **follow** | past · progressive | no man | end |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **enter** | past | the young man *not said here* | the king's chamber |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |

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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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