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title: Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood; l… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood; later on came an icy wind, which sent the frost packing. Who acts: dense damp fog, icy wind. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 97

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Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood; later on came an icy wind, which sent the frost packing.

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**Who acts:** dense damp fog, icy wind · **What happens:** lie, come, send · **To what, where:** whole neighbourhood, frost packing

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dense damp fog, icy wind), 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:pg5615:5:97
# text = Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood; later on came an icy wind, which sent the frost packing.
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	packing	packing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | a dense damp fog |  |  | the whole neighbourhood | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neighbourhood=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | a icy wind |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | a icy wind | the frost packing |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packing=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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