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title: In those days feasts were much longer and more splendid than they ar… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days feasts were much longer and more splendid than they are now; and it was growing dark when the princess, tired out with all she had gone through, stole up to her own room for a little quiet. Who acts: days feasts, wars, feast, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 94

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In those days feasts were much longer and more splendid than they are now; and it was growing dark when the princess, tired out with all she had gone through, stole up to her own room for a little quiet.

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**Who acts:** days feasts, wars, feast, princess · **What happens:** be, grow, go through, steal up

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days feasts, wars, feast, princess), 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:pg3282:18:94
# text = In those days feasts were much longer and more splendid than they are now; and it was growing dark when the princess, tired out with all she had gone through, stole up to her own room for a little quiet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	through	through	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
34	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | days feasts |  |  |  |  | long, splendid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | wars *= war* |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | feast |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go through** | past · perfect | princess |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steal up** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | to princess's own room for a little quiet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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