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title: It soon grew so cold in the forest that at last one of the men decla… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It soon grew so cold in the forest that at last one of the men declared they could walk no more, unless they could manage to warm themselves. Who acts: forest, youth. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 89

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It soon grew so cold in the forest that at last one of the men declared they could walk no more, unless they could manage to warm themselves.

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**Who acts:** forest, youth · **What happens:** grow, declare, walk, manage, warm · **To what, where:** forest, more, youth

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, youth), 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:pg3027:34:89
# text = It soon grew so cold in the forest that at last one of the men declared they could walk no more, unless they could manage to warm themselves.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | forest |  |  | the forest |  | cold, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  | the forest |  |  |  | at last one of the men | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | could | youth | more |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory |
| 4 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **warm** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | youth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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 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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