--- title: He crouched behind a bush for some time, till he felt that midnight… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He crouched behind a bush for some time, till he felt that midnight could not be far off, when suddenly there arose in the middle of the moor a brilliant glow, as if a star was shining over one of the hillocks. Who acts: king, star. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/) / 17 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 17 He crouched behind a bush for some time, till he felt that midnight could not be far off, when suddenly there arose in the middle of the moor a brilliant glow, as if a star was shining over one of the hillocks. **Who acts:** king, star · **What happens:** crouch, feel, not be, arise, shine · **To what, where:** bush, brilliant glow, middle This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:34:17 # text = He crouched behind a bush for some time, till he felt that midnight could not be far off, when suddenly there arose in the middle of the moor a brilliant glow, as if a star was shining over one of the hillocks. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crouched crouch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 behind behind ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 off off ADV RB _ 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hillocks hillock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crouch** | past | king | | | a bush | time | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind bush=Location | | 2 | **feel** | past | king | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **is** | could | king *not said here* | | | | | far, off *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **arise** | past | king *not said here* | a brilliant glow | | the middle of the moor; there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glow=Theme | | 5 | **shine** | past · progressive | a star | | | | | over one of the hillocks | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over one=Location | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/18/) - ↑ back to [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/)