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description: But though it was plainly becoming longer and longer, it was some time before the two would fit. Who acts: sword, two. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 80

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But though it was plainly becoming longer and longer, it was some time before the two would fit.

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**Who acts:** sword, two · **What happens:** become, be, fit · **To what, where:** time

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, two), 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:pg2435:6:80
# text = But though it was plainly becoming longer and longer, it was some time before the two would fit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · progressive | sword |  |  |  |  | long, plainly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | sword | some time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fit** | would | the two | some time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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