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title: With each step the country became more and more dreary, but at night… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With each step the country became more and more dreary, but at nightfall the child could see behind the dark and bare rocks something darker still. Who acts: country, child. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 60

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With each step the country became more and more dreary, but at nightfall the child could see behind the dark and bare rocks something darker still.

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**Who acts:** country, child · **What happens:** become, see · **To what, where:** something, nightfall

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, child), 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:pg3027:33:60
# text = With each step the country became more and more dreary, but at nightfall the child could see behind the dark and bare rocks something darker still.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
26	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | the country |  |  |  |  | with each step | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | could | the child | something |  | nightfall |  | behind the dark rocks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |

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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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