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title: And now they seemed farther apart than ever, and in despair they tri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now they seemed farther apart than ever, and in despair they tried once more to throw themselves into the foaming waves. Who acts: Sylvain. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 28

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And now they seemed farther apart than ever, and in despair they tried once more to throw themselves into the foaming waves.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain · **What happens:** seem, try, throw · **To what, where:** more, despair, Sylvain, foaming waves

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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), 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:pg7277:9:28
# text = And now they seemed farther apart than ever, and in despair they tried once more to throw themselves into the foaming waves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  | now | apart *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | Sylvain | more |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sylvain *not said here* | Sylvain |  |  |  | into the foaming waves *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer themselves=Theme into wave=Result |

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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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