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title: Years passed away, and one day, when the princess was playing ball i… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Years passed away, and one day, when the princess was playing ball in the garden, she happened to throw her ball farther than usual, and it fell into a clump of rose-bushes. Who acts: Years, princess, ball. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 1

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Years passed away, and one day, when the princess was playing ball in the garden, she happened to throw her ball farther than usual, and it fell into a clump of rose-bushes.

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**Who acts:** Years, princess, ball · **What happens:** pass away, play, happen, throw, fall · **To what, where:** ball, garden, clump

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Years, princess, ball), 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:pg3282:28:1
# text = Years passed away, and one day, when the princess was playing ball in the garden, she happened to throw her ball farther than usual, and it fell into a clump of rose-bushes.
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | participle | Years |  |  |  | day | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | past · progressive | the princess | ball |  | the garden |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess's ball |  |  |  | far *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | ball |  |  |  |  | into a clump of rose bushes *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into clump=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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