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title: Now all that night it had rained heavily, and did not seem likely to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all that night it had rained heavily, and did not seem likely to stop, and in some places the road was so thick with mud that it was almost impossible to get across it. Who acts: road. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 89

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Now all that night it had rained heavily, and did not seem likely to stop, and in some places the road was so thick with mud that it was almost impossible to get across it.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** rain, not seem, stop, be, get · **To what, where:** night, places, road

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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:pg3454:19:89
# text = Now all that night it had rained heavily, and did not seem likely to stop, and in some places the road was so thick with mud that it was almost impossible to get across it.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rained	rain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	seem	seem	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	csubj	_	_
36	across	across	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rain** | past · perfect · passive |  | all night |  |  | now | heavily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | past | the road |  |  | some places |  | with mud; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | almost, impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | road |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across it=Destination |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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