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title: But now it was grown dark, and the wee bannock couldn't see; but it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But now it was grown dark, and the wee bannock couldn't see; but it went into the side of a big whin bush, and into a fox's hole. Who acts: wee bannock, half. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 101

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But now it was grown dark, and the wee bannock couldn't see; but it went into the side of a big whin bush, and into a fox's hole.

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**Who acts:** wee bannock, half · **What happens:** grow, not see, go · **To what, where:** half, side

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wee bannock, half), 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:pg14241:21:101
# text = But now it was grown dark, and the wee bannock couldn't see; but it went into the side of a big whin bush, and into a fox's hole.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	whin	whin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · passive |  | half |  |  | now | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could | the wee bannock |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | half |  |  | the side of a big whin bush |  | into a fox's hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into side=Initial\_Location into hole=Destination |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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