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title: He found himself at once in a labyrinth, and wandered about for a lo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He found himself at once in a labyrinth, and wandered about for a long time without meeting anyone; in fact, the only sight he saw was a circle of human hands, sticking out of the ground above the wrist, each with a bracelet of gold, on which a name was written. Who acts: gate, only sight, circle. A
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 96

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He found himself at once in a labyrinth, and wandered about for a long time without meeting anyone; in fact, the only sight he saw was a circle of human hands, sticking out of the ground above the wrist, each with a bracelet of gold, on which a name was written.

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**Who acts:** gate, only sight, circle · **What happens:** find, wander, meet, see, be, stick out · **To what, where:** gate, labyrinth, anyone, only sight, circle, fact · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, only sight, circle), 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:pg640:16:96
# text = He found himself at once in a labyrinth, and wandered about for a long time without meeting anyone; in fact, the only sight he saw was a circle of human hands, sticking out of the ground above the wrist, each with a bracelet of gold, on which a name was written.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	above	above	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | gate | gate |  | a labyrinth |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at once=Asset |
| 2 | **wander** | past | gate *not said here* |  |  |  | time | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | gate *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past | gate | the only sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the only sight | a circle and each bracelet of gold |  | fact |  | of human hands | tree rules |
| 6 | **stick out** | gerund | a circle and each bracelet of gold *not said here* | the ground above the wrist |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 7 | **write** | past · passive |  | a name |  | a circle and each bracelet of gold |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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