--- title: As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he found an old woman raking sticks and dried leaves together, and burning them in a glade of the wood. Who acts: Darkness, old woman. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuania --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/94/) [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/) / 94 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 94 As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he found an old woman raking sticks and dried leaves together, and burning them in a glade of the wood. **Who acts:** Darkness, old woman · **What happens:** walk, see, make, find, rake, dry · **To what, where:** light, way, old woman, sticks, glade, fire 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, old woman), 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:pg641:5:94 # text = As he walked he saw the light of a fire, and making his way to it he found an old woman raking sticks and dried leaves together, and burning them in a glade of the wood. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 raking rake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 advcl _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 glade glade NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | Darkness | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | Darkness | the light of a fire | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Darkness *not said here* | Darkness's way | way | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | | 4 | **find** | past | Darkness | a old woman | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 5 | **rake** | gerund | a old woman *not said here* | sticks and dried leaves | | | | together *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **burn** | gerund | Darkness *not said here* | sticks *= stick* | | a glade of the wood | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 8 | **light** | | | a fire | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/95/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)