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title: The children both grew quickly, and were never tired of playing toge… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The children both grew quickly, and were never tired of playing together, or wanted any other companions. Who acts: children. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 90

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The children both grew quickly, and were never tired of playing together, or wanted any other companions.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** grow, not be, play, want · **To what, where:** other companions

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg3027:26:90
# text = The children both grew quickly, and were never tired of playing together, or wanted any other companions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | both, quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | past | the children *not said here* | any other companions |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot companion=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 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.

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