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title: Now the miles seemed to slip by, for the new comer was so lively and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the miles seemed to slip by, for the new comer was so lively and entertaining that the king’s son could not help hoping that he indeed might prove to be the true friend. Who acts: miles, new comer, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 66

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Now the miles seemed to slip by, for the new comer was so lively and entertaining that the king’s son could not help hoping that he indeed might prove to be the true friend.

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**Who acts:** miles, new comer, son · **What happens:** seem, slip by, be, entertain, not help, hope · **To what, where:** true friend

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, new comer, son), 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:pg2435:37:66
# text = Now the miles seemed to slip by, for the new comer was so lively and entertaining that the king’s son could not help hoping that he indeed might prove to be the true friend.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | the miles |  |  |  | now |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **slip by** | to-infinitive | the miles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | the new comer |  |  |  |  | lively *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **entertain** | gerund | the new comer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **help** | could | the king's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **hope** *not said to happen* | gerund | the king's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **prove** | might | son |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | the true friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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