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title: But the happier she grew the deeper was her wonder at everything aro… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the happier she grew the deeper was her wonder at everything around her, and the more firmly she was persuaded that some great unknown power must be at the bottom of it all. Who acts: lady, deeper, some. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dep
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 108

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But the happier she grew the deeper was her wonder at everything around her, and the more firmly she was persuaded that some great unknown power must be at the bottom of it all.

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**Who acts:** lady, deeper, some · **What happens:** grow, be, persuade, power · **To what, where:** wonder, everything, lady, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, deeper, some), 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:pg641:2:108
# text = But the happier she grew the deeper was her wonder at everything around her, and the more firmly she was persuaded that some great unknown power must be at the bottom of it all.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	deeper	deeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | deeper | lady's wonder |  | everything |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **persuade** | past · passive |  | lady |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **power** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | must |  |  |  | the bottom |  | of bottom | 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 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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