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title: But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her gr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her growing wiser and wiser. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 88

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But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her growing wiser and wiser.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come back, find, grow · **To what, where:** case

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg3454:32:88
# text = But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her growing wiser and wiser.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
18	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | man |  |  | any case |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in case=Location |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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