--- title: Darkness came on, and he lost his way, and wandered about among the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Darkness came on, and he lost his way, and wandered about among the trees looking for the path that would lead him back to the palace. Who acts: Darkness, trees, path. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/93/) [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 Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 93 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 93 Darkness came on, and he lost his way, and wandered about among the trees looking for the path that would lead him back to the palace. **Who acts:** Darkness, trees, path · **What happens:** come on, lose, wander, look, lead · **To what, where:** way, trees, Darkness This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darkness, trees, path), 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:pg641:5:93 # text = Darkness came on, and he lost his way, and wandered about among the trees looking for the path that would lead him back to the palace. 1 Darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come on** | past | Darkness | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | past | Darkness | Darkness's way | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 3 | **wander** | past | Darkness *not said here* | | | the trees | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the trees *not said here* | | | | | for the path | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for path=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | would | the path | Darkness | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/94/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)