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title: As soon as night came again she once more leaned out into the darkne… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as night came again she once more leaned out into the darkness and bewailed her miserable lot. Who acts: night, Fiordelisa. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 43

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As soon as night came again she once more leaned out into the darkness and bewailed her miserable lot.

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**Who acts:** night, Fiordelisa · **What happens:** come, lean out, bewail · **To what, where:** darkness, miserable lot

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:3:43
# text = As soon as night came again she once more leaned out into the darkness and bewailed her miserable lot.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	5	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	fixed	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	leaned	lean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bewailed	bewail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lean out** | participle | Fiordelisa |  |  | the darkness |  | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bewail** | past | night *not said here* | Fiordelisa's miserable lot |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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