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title: For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one morning it caught sight of a large town, which gave it fresh courage. Who acts: grass, large town. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 42

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For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one morning it caught sight of a large town, which gave it fresh courage.

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**Who acts:** grass, large town · **What happens:** run, catch, give, sight · **To what, where:** sight, grass, large town

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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: who acts (grass, large town), 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:pg641:15:42
# text = For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one morning it caught sight of a large town, which gave it fresh courage.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | grass |  |  |  | dawn; day; morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | grass | sight of a large town |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | a large town | grass |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient courage=Theme |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | a large town |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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