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title: At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 177

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At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off.

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**What happens:** appear, sign · **To what, where:** last day signs, houses

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:15:177
# text = At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past |  |  |  | last day signs of houses |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sign=Location |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | houses |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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