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title: Once he climbed a little higher than before, and hope rose in his he… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once he climbed a little higher than before, and hope rose in his heart, then down he came with such force that his hands and knees smarted worse than ever. Who acts: sun, hope, hands. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 20

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Once he climbed a little higher than before, and hope rose in his heart, then down he came with such force that his hands and knees smarted worse than ever.

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**Who acts:** sun, hope, hands · **What happens:** climb, rise, come, smart · **To what, where:** heart

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, hope, hands), 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:pg3454:29:20
# text = Once he climbed a little higher than before, and hope rose in his heart, then down he came with such force that his hands and knees smarted worse than ever.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	ccomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	smarted	smart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
30	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **climb** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | hope |  |  | sun's heart |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | with such force; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smart** | past | sun's hands and knees |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: 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 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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