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title: On the fourth night the attraction of the forest grew so strong that… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the fourth night the attraction of the forest grew so strong that neither the thought of Julia nor the promises he had made her could hold him back. Who acts: attraction, thought. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 122

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On the fourth night the attraction of the forest grew so strong that neither the thought of Julia nor the promises he had made her could hold him back.

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**Who acts:** attraction, thought · **What happens:** grow, make, hold back, attract, think · **To what, where:** Yara, attraction, forest, Julia

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attraction, thought), 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:pg3282:10:122
# text = On the fourth night the attraction of the forest grew so strong that neither the thought of Julia nor the promises he had made her could hold him back.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	attraction	attraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the attraction of the forest |  |  |  | night | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | attraction | Yara |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product |
| 3 | **hold back** | could | the thought of Julia nor the promises | attraction |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **attract** |  |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | Julia nor the promises |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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