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description: For some time he stumbled along, keeping to the path as well as he could in the darkness, and just as he was almost wearied out he saw before him a gleam of light. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependen
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 27

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For some time he stumbled along, keeping to the path as well as he could in the darkness, and just as he was almost wearied out he saw before him a gleam of light.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** stumble, keep, weary out, see · **To what, where:** Prince, gleam

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince), 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:pg7277:36:27
# text = For some time he stumbled along, keeping to the path as well as he could in the darkness, and just as he was almost wearied out he saw before him a gleam of light.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** | past | Prince |  |  |  | time | along *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | could | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the path | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weary out** | past · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | past | Prince | a gleam of light |  |  | before Grotto |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gleam=Stimulus |

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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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