--- title: Now all of this was the more difficult to do because ever since the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Now all of this was the more difficult to do because ever since the hole was made in the mountain the moon had ceased to shine by night, and the sun by day, so that it was quite dark, and even now it remained so. Who acts: all, mountain, sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, mountain, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:20:34 # text = Now all of this was the more difficult to do because ever since the hole was made in the mountain the moon had ceased to shine by night, and the sun by day, so that it was quite dark, and even now it remained so. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 8 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 csubj _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advcl _ _ 13 since since SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 shine shine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 41 mark _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 even even ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 47 advmod _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all of this | | | | now | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | past · passive | | the hole | | the mountain | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive | the mountain *not said here* | the moon | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shine** | to-infinitive | the mountain *not said here* | | | | night | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | sun | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **remain** | past | the sun by day | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/35/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/)