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title: After passing some hours of the night, not without considerable fear… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After passing some hours of the night, not without considerable fear and trembling, he noticed a light shining at a little distance, and hoping it might proceed from some house where he could find a better shelter than in the top of the tree, he cautiously descended and went towards the light. Who a
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 7

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After passing some hours of the night, not without considerable fear and trembling, he noticed a light shining at a little distance, and hoping it might proceed from some house where he could find a better shelter than in the top of the tree, he cautiously descended and went towards the light.

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**Who acts:** tailor, light, hoping · **What happens:** pass, notice, shine, hope, proceed, find · **To what, where:** light, house, better shelter

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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 (tailor, light, hoping), 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:pg7277:45:7
# text = After passing some hours of the night, not without considerable fear and trembling, he noticed a light shining at a little distance, and hoping it might proceed from some house where he could find a better shelter than in the top of the tree, he cautiously descended and went towards the light.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	csubj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
54	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | tailor *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | without considerable fear and trembling | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | tailor | a light |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a little distance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund |  | light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **proceed** | might | hoping |  |  | some house |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **find** | could | tailor | a better shelter |  |  |  | than the top of the tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic |
| 7 | **descend** | past | tailor |  |  |  |  | cautiously *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | past | tailor *not said here* |  |  | the light |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards light=Initial\_Location |

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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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