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title: For some time she could see nothing before her but a flat waste of s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time she could see nothing before her but a flat waste of sand, which became hotter and hotter as the sun rose higher and higher. Who acts: princess, flat waste, sun. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 6

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For some time she could see nothing before her but a flat waste of sand, which became hotter and hotter as the sun rose higher and higher.

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**Who acts:** princess, flat waste, sun · **What happens:** see, become, rise · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, flat waste, sun), 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:pg3282:26:6
# text = For some time she could see nothing before her but a flat waste of sand, which became hotter and hotter as the sun rose higher and higher.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | princess | nothing |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | past | princess's flat waste of sand |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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