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title: At first he thought he was going into a dark, obscure place, but pre… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 43

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At first he thought he was going into a dark, obscure place, but presently a quite different light succeeded that which he came out of, and, entering into a large, spacious place, at about fifty or sixty paces distant, he perceived a magnificent palace, which he had not then time enough to look at.

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**Who acts:** Prince, quite different light · **What happens:** think, go, succeed, come out, enter, perceive · **To what, where:** dark obscure place, large spacious place, magnificent palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, quite different 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:pg503:50:43
# text = At first he thought he was going into a dark, obscure place, but presently a quite different light succeeded that which he came out of, and, entering into a large, spacious place, at about fifty or sixty paces distant, he perceived a magnificent palace, which he had not then time enough to look at.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	obscure	obscure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	conj	_	_
44	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	parataxis	_	_
45	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
57	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	_
58	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
59	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	acl	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Prince |  |  | a dark obscure place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **succeed** | past | a quite different light |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **enter** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  | a large spacious place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **perceive** | past | Prince | a magnificent palace |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** | past | Prince | a magnificent palace |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 8 | **look** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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