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title: Night and day, over mountains and through valleys, in cold or in hea… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 27

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Night and day, over mountains and through valleys, in cold or in heat, they struggled on, enduring fatigue and hunger and every hardship, and consoled only by the hope of meeting once more--until three years had passed, and at last they stood upon the cliffs where the river flowed into the mighty sea.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain, river, meeting · **What happens:** struggle, endure, console, pass, stand, flow · **To what, where:** fatigue, three years, last, mighty sea

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, river, meeting), 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:pg7277:9:27
# text = Night and day, over mountains and through valleys, in cold or in heat, they struggled on, enduring fatigue and hunger and every hardship, and consoled only by the hope of meeting once more--until three years had passed, and at last they stood upon the cliffs where the river flowed into the mighty sea.
1	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	enduring	endure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	hardship	hardship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	consoled	console	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  | night |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **endure** | gerund | Sylvain *not said here* | fatigue and hunger and every hardship |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fatigue=Circumstance |
| 3 | **console** | participle | Sylvain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the hope of meeting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | three years |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stand** | past | Sylvain |  |  | last |  | upon the cliffs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 6 | **flow** | past | the river |  |  | the mighty sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hope** |  | meeting |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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 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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