--- title: Down, down, down they went for days, all the while getting deeper an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Down, down, down they went for days, all the while getting deeper and deeper into the earth, until at last the darkness ended and they dropped into a beautiful country; around them grew short green grass, on which browsed herds of cattle and sheep and goats. Who acts: men, while, last darkness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, while, last darkness), 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:pg3027:2:57 # text = Down, down, down they went for days, all the while getting deeper and deeper into the earth, until at last the darkness ended and they dropped into a beautiful country; around them grew short green grass, on which browsed herds of cattle and sheep and goats. 1 Down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 around around ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 38 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 browsed browse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 conj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | men *= man* | | | | day | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | gerund | all while | | | the earth | | deep *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination | | 3 | **end** | past | the last darkness | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **drop** | past | men *= man* | | | a beautiful country | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into country=Trajectory | | 5 | **grow** | past | the last darkness *not said here* | short green grass | | | | around men *= man* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme | | 6 | **browse** | past | | herds of cattle and sheep and goats | | | | | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/)