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title: At length, towards evening, the mass of trees grew more transparent,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, towards evening, the mass of trees grew more transparent, and through the interlaced branches a wide plain was visible. Who acts: mass, wide plain. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 6

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At length, towards evening, the mass of trees grew more transparent, and through the interlaced branches a wide plain was visible.

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**Who acts:** mass, wide plain · **What happens:** grow, interlace, be · **To what, where:** length, interlaced branches

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mass, wide plain), 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:pg640:31:6
# text = At length, towards evening, the mass of trees grew more transparent, and through the interlaced branches a wide plain was visible.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	interlaced	interlace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the mass of trees |  |  | length |  | transparent *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **interlace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a wide plain |  |  | the interlaced branches |  | visible *property* | tree rules |

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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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