--- title: He gazed about, full of wonder, and was just preparing to walk out a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He gazed about, full of wonder, and was just preparing to walk out again when the same voice bade him: ‘Tread on the stone in the middle of the hall, and good luck will attend you.’ Who acts: tailor, good luck. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/31/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Crystal Coffin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/) / 31 # The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 31 He gazed about, full of wonder, and was just preparing to walk out again when the same voice bade him: ‘Tread on the stone in the middle of the hall, and good luck will attend you.’ **Who acts:** tailor, good luck · **What happens:** gaze, prepare, walk out, attend · **To what, where:** same voice bade, you This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, good luck), 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:pg7277:45:31 # text = He gazed about, full of wonder, and was just preparing to walk out again when the same voice bade him: ‘Tread on the stone in the middle of the hall, and good luck will attend you.’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 preparing prepare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Tread tread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gaze** | past | tailor | | | | | about *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **prepare** | past · progressive | tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **walk out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tailor *not said here* | the same voice bade | | | again | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **attend** | future | good luck | | you | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Goal | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/32/) - ↑ back to [The Crystal Coffin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/)