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title: A thousand years had passed since the prince first entered the city,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A thousand years had passed since the prince first entered the city, but they had flown so fast that the time seemed no more than six months. Who acts: prince, time. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 42

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A thousand years had passed since the prince first entered the city, but they had flown so fast that the time seemed no more than six months.

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**Who acts:** prince, time · **What happens:** pass, enter, fly, seem · **To what, where:** thousand years, city, immortals

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, time), 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:pg2435:19:42
# text = A thousand years had passed since the prince first entered the city, but they had flown so fast that the time seemed no more than six months.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	27	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | a thousand years |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the prince | the city |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** | past · perfect · passive |  | immortals *= immortal* |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the time |  |  |  | month |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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