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title: And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one--that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds. Who acts: more days, one, Stana. A sen
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 20

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And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one--that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.

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**Who acts:** more days, one, Stana · **What happens:** pass, succeed, procure, dry, comb, spin · **To what, where:** rumour, flax, linen, shirt, strawberry beds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more days, one, Stana), 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:pg641:35:20
# text = And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one--that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	Stana	Stana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obl	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	over	over	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | more days and nights |  |  |  | then |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **succeed** | past · passive | another one | this rumour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **procure** | past · perfect | Stana | some flax |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Theme |
| 4 | **dry** | past · perfect | more days and nights *not said here* | flax |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 5 | **comb** | past | more days and nights *not said here* | flax |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **spin** | past | more days and nights *not said here* | flax |  | linen |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into linen=Trajectory |
| 7 | **sew** | past | more days and nights *not said here* | flax |  | the shirt |  | Stana *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into shirt=Product |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Stana |  |  | the strawberry beds |  | of the shirt | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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