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title: But as the years went on, and the baby grew into a fine big boy, the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the years went on, and the baby grew into a fine big boy, the remembrance of it came back, and one day he told the queen the whole story. Who acts: years, baby, remembrance. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

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But as the years went on, and the baby grew into a fine big boy, the remembrance of it came back, and one day he told the queen the whole story.

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**Who acts:** years, baby, remembrance · **What happens:** go on, grow, come back, tell, remember · **To what, where:** fine big boy, whole story, queen, baby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, baby, remembrance), 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:pg3282:17:95
# text = But as the years went on, and the baby grew into a fine big boy, the remembrance of it came back, and one day he told the queen the whole story.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 baby |  |  |  |  | into a fine big boy *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into boy=Result |
| 3 | **come back** | past | the remembrance of baby | a fine big boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | remembrance | the whole story | the queen |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient story=Topic |
| 5 | **remember** |  |  | baby |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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