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title: Children grow up very quickly when they live under water, and in les… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Children grow up very quickly when they live under water, and in less time than anyone could suppose, Dilah had changed from a baby to a woman. Who acts: Children, anyone, Dilah. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 21

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Children grow up very quickly when they live under water, and in less time than anyone could suppose, Dilah had changed from a baby to a woman.

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**Who acts:** Children, anyone, Dilah · **What happens:** grow up, live, suppose, change · **To what, where:** water, less time, baby

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, anyone, Dilah), 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:pg3282:16:21
# text = Children grow up very quickly when they live under water, and in less time than anyone could suppose, Dilah had changed from a baby to a woman.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | children *= child* |  |  | water |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
| 3 | **suppose** | could | anyone | less time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Attribute |
| 4 | **change** | past · perfect | Dilah |  |  | a baby | time | to a woman *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from baby=Initial\_State to woman=Result |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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