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title: He looked eagerly at it, but found it was only a kind of pale cloud,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked eagerly at it, but found it was only a kind of pale cloud, which was all the light this strange underworld could boast. Who acts: fellow, moon, kind, strange underworld. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 62

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He looked eagerly at it, but found it was only a kind of pale cloud, which was all the light this strange underworld could boast.

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**Who acts:** fellow, moon, kind, strange underworld · **What happens:** look, find, be, boast · **To what, where:** kind, light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fellow, moon, kind, strange underworld), 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:pg641:9:62
# text = He looked eagerly at it, but found it was only a kind of pale cloud, which was all the light this strange underworld could boast.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	underworld	underworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | fellow |  |  |  |  | at moon; eagerly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | moon | a kind and all light |  |  |  | of pale cloud | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a kind and all light | all light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **boast** *speech: other* | could | this strange underworld | all light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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