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description: And the years went on, and the King grew more and more clever at magic, and more and more disagreeable at home, and the Princess grew more beautiful and more dear every day she lived. Who acts: years, King, Princess. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, with its depende
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 135

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And the years went on, and the King grew more and more clever at magic, and more and more disagreeable at home, and the Princess grew more beautiful and more dear every day she lived.

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**Who acts:** years, King, Princess · **What happens:** go on, grow, live · **To what, where:** more disagreeable, day

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, King, Princess), 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:pg23661:9:135
# text = And the years went on, and the King grew more and more clever at magic, and more and more disagreeable at home, and the Princess grew more beautiful and more dear every day she lived.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the years |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the King | more disagreeable at home |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the Princess |  |  |  | day | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | Princess | every day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme day=Location |

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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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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