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title: Thick darkness surrounded them, yet it seemed to the prince as if th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thick darkness surrounded them, yet it seemed to the prince as if their path led into still deeper depths. Who acts: Thick darkness, it. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 60

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Thick darkness surrounded them, yet it seemed to the prince as if their path led into still deeper depths.

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**Who acts:** Thick darkness, it · **What happens:** surround, seem, lead · **To what, where:** arms, path, deeper depths

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thick darkness, it), 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:pg641:9:60
# text = Thick darkness surrounded them, yet it seemed to the prince as if their path led into still deeper depths.
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle | Thick darkness *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | to the prince; as arms's path | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | arms's path *not said here* |  | deeper depths |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into depth=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 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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