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title: For several years they all lived happily together, when one day, as… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For several years they all lived happily together, when one day, as the girl was out on the hill with the kids, the sun grew dark and an air cold as a thick white mist came creeping, creeping up from the sea. Who acts: men, girl, one day, thick white mist. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by An
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 79

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For several years they all lived happily together, when one day, as the girl was out on the hill with the kids, the sun grew dark and an air cold as a thick white mist came creeping, creeping up from the sea.

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**Who acts:** men, girl, one day, thick white mist · **What happens:** live, be, grow, come, creep, creep up · **To what, where:** hill, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, girl, one day, thick white mist), 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:pg3027:29:79
# text = For several years they all lived happily together, when one day, as the girl was out on the hill with the kids, the sun grew dark and an air cold as a thick white mist came creeping, creeping up from the sea.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  | year | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the girl |  |  | the hill |  | with the kids; out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | one day |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | a thick white mist |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **creep** | gerund | a thick white mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **creep up** | gerund | a thick white mist *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory |

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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 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.

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