--- title: As the years went on, the difference between the two girls grew more… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As the years went on, the difference between the two girls grew more marked, and the old woman treated her stepdaughter worse than ever, and was always on the watch for some pretext for beating her, or depriving her of her food. Who acts: years, difference, old woman. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/) / 15 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 15 As the years went on, the difference between the two girls grew more marked, and the old woman treated her stepdaughter worse than ever, and was always on the watch for some pretext for beating her, or depriving her of her food. **Who acts:** years, difference, old woman · **What happens:** go on, grow, mark, treat, be, beat · **To what, where:** stepdaughter, watch, woman This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (years, difference, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:10:15 # text = As the years went on, the difference between the two girls grew more marked, and the old woman treated her stepdaughter worse than ever, and was always on the watch for some pretext for beating her, or depriving her of her food. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 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 13 advcl _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 stepdaughter stepdaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 pretext pretext NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 beating beat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 depriving deprive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 difference between the two girls | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mark** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **treat** | past | the old woman | woman's stepdaughter | | | | bad *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | the difference between the two girls *not said here* | | | the watch | | for some pretext; always *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **beat** | gerund | the difference between the two girls *not said here* | woman | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | | 7 | **deprive** | gerund | the difference between the two girls *not said here* | woman | | | | of woman's food | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of food=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/)