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title: So, after all, the years of waiting passed more quickly than the que… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, after all, the years of waiting passed more quickly than the queen had dared to hope. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 61

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So, after all, the years of waiting passed more quickly than the queen had dared to hope.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** pass, dare, hope · **To what, where:** years

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg3027:28:61
# text = So, after all, the years of waiting passed more quickly than the queen had dared to hope.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund · passive |  | all years |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dare** | past · perfect | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hope** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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