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title: So the time passed by, and with each year Wildrose grew taller and m… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the time passed by, and with each year Wildrose grew taller and more beautiful, and she lived happily in her nest and never wanted to go out of it, only standing at the edge in the sunset, and looking upon the beautiful world. Who acts: time, Wildrose. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by An
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 21

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So the time passed by, and with each year Wildrose grew taller and more beautiful, and she lived happily in her nest and never wanted to go out of it, only standing at the edge in the sunset, and looking upon the beautiful world.

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**Who acts:** time, Wildrose · **What happens:** pass by, grow, live, not want, go out, stand · **To what, where:** nest, edge

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Wildrose), 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:pg2435:10:21
# text = So the time passed by, and with each year Wildrose grew taller and more beautiful, and she lived happily in her nest and never wanted to go out of it, only standing at the edge in the sunset, and looking upon the beautiful world.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	Wildrose	Wildrose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
45	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Wildrose |  |  |  | year | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | Wildrose |  |  | Wildrose's nest |  | happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
| 4 | **not** **want** | past | Wildrose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wildrose *not said here* | nest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | Wildrose *not said here* |  |  | the edge in the sunset |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location |
| 7 | **look** | gerund | Wildrose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the beautiful world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon world=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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