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title: The foot only grew worse and worse, and became daily more swollen an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 28

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The foot only grew worse and worse, and became daily more swollen and painful.

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**Who acts:** foot · **What happens:** grow, become

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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:pg3027:37:28
# text = The foot only grew worse and worse, and became daily more swollen and painful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the foot |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | swollen *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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