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title: I pushed on without pausing, and ere long I saw the stranger coming… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I pushed on without pausing, and ere long I saw the stranger coming towards me, and leading a fine stag. Who acts: I, stranger. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 68

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I pushed on without pausing, and ere long I saw the stranger coming towards me, and leading a fine stag.

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**Who acts:** I, stranger · **What happens:** push on, pause, see, come, lead · **To what, where:** stranger, fine stag

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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 (I, stranger), 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:pg7277:45:68
# text = I pushed on without pausing, and ere long I saw the stranger coming towards me, and leading a fine stag.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push on** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pause** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | the stranger |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lead** | gerund | I *not said here* | a fine stag |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme |

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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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