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description: But once more her scheme was doomed to failure, for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared, and she found herself in a wood black as night, and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions. Who acts: church, monk. A sentence of «Th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 16

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But once more her scheme was doomed to failure, for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared, and she found herself in a wood black as night, and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions.

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**Who acts:** church, monk · **What happens:** doom, go, disappear, find, scheme · **To what, where:** scheme, yard, church, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (church, monk), 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:pg640:26:16
# text = But once more her scheme was doomed to failure, for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared, and she found herself in a wood black as night, and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | past · passive |  | church's scheme |  |  |  | to failure | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | church | a yard |  | the church than scheme |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | the monk |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | church | church |  | a wood |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 5 | **scheme** |  | church |  |  |  |  |  | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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