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title: But as the time drew near, and nothing was heard of the princess, th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the time drew near, and nothing was heard of the princess, the youth became anxious and uneasy, especially when it came to his ears that the great cask was being filled with pitch, and that sticks were laid underneath to make a fire to boil it with. Who acts: time, youth, star, fire. A senten
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 78

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But as the time drew near, and nothing was heard of the princess, the youth became anxious and uneasy, especially when it came to his ears that the great cask was being filled with pitch, and that sticks were laid underneath to make a fire to boil it with.

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**Who acts:** time, youth, star, fire · **What happens:** draw, hear, become, come, fill, lay · **To what, where:** nothing, ears, great cask, sticks, fire, star

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, star, fire), 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:pg3282:23:78
# text = But as the time drew near, and nothing was heard of the princess, the youth became anxious and uneasy, especially when it came to his ears that the great cask was being filled with pitch, and that sticks were laid underneath to make a fire to boil it with.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
45	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the time |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of the princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | star |  |  | boy's ears |  | especially *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the great cask |  |  |  | with pitch | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pitch=Instrument |
| 6 | **lay** | past · passive |  | sticks |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **boil** | to-infinitive | a fire *not said here* | star |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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