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title: The full moon lighted up the weird scene, and the young warrior gaze… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The full moon lighted up the weird scene, and the young warrior gazed with astonishment, taking great care to keep still, lest he should be discovered. Who acts: full moon. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 176

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The full moon lighted up the weird scene, and the young warrior gazed with astonishment, taking great care to keep still, lest he should be discovered.

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**Who acts:** full moon · **What happens:** light up, gaze, take, keep, discover · **To what, where:** weird scene, full moon, great care, warrior

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (full moon), 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:pg641:4:176
# text = The full moon lighted up the weird scene, and the young warrior gazed with astonishment, taking great care to keep still, lest he should be discovered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | participle | the full moon *not said here* | the weird scene |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Product |
| 2 | **gaze** | participle · passive |  | the full moon |  |  |  | with astonishment | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | great care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **discover** | should · passive |  | warrior |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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 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.

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