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title: And besides, it was neither hot nor cold, bright nor dark, but somet… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And besides, it was neither hot nor cold, bright nor dark, but something of them all, and Petru did not find the way a step too long. Who acts: light, Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 83

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And besides, it was neither hot nor cold, bright nor dark, but something of them all, and Petru did not find the way a step too long.

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**Who acts:** light, Petru · **What happens:** be, not find · **To what, where:** way

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Petru), 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:pg641:21:83
# text = And besides, it was neither hot nor cold, bright nor dark, but something of them all, and Petru did not find the way a step too long.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | light |  |  |  |  | something *obl*; hot, neither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **find** | past · do-support | Petru | the way |  |  |  | long *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Theme step=Attribute |

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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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