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title: But by patience and perseverance they crept up foot by foot, aided b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 35

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But by patience and perseverance they crept up foot by foot, aided by their fires of magic wood, without which they must have perished in the intense cold, until presently they stood at the gates of the magnificent Ice Palace which crowned the mountain, where, in deadly silence and icy sleep, lay the heart of Sabella.

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**Who acts:** Princes · **What happens:** creep up, aid, perish, stand, crown, lay · **To what, where:** foot, Princes, intense cold, gates, mountain, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes), 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:pg7277:17:35
# text = But by patience and perseverance they crept up foot by foot, aided by their fires of magic wood, without which they must have perished in the intense cold, until presently they stood at the gates of the magnificent Ice Palace which crowned the mountain, where, in deadly silence and icy sleep, lay the heart of Sabella.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	crowned	crown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	parataxis	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep up** | past | Princes *= prince* | foot |  |  |  | by patience and perseverance; by foot | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location foot=Theme |
| 2 | **aid** | participle | Princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **perish** | must · perfect · passive |  | Princes *= prince* |  | the intense cold |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Princes *= prince* |  |  | the gates of the magnificent Ice Palace |  | presently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location |
| 5 | **crown** | past |  | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive | Princes *= prince* *not said here* | the heart of Sabella |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Result |
| 7 | **fire** |  | Princes *= prince* | magic wood |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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