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title: They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only the princess noticed that day by day the fresh young faces of her maidens grew pale and wan, and the mirror in the great marble hall showed her that she alone still kept her rosy bloom, while Brunhilda and the rest faded visibly. Wh
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 55

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They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only the princess noticed that day by day the fresh young faces of her maidens grew pale and wan, and the mirror in the great marble hall showed her that she alone still kept her rosy bloom, while Brunhilda and the rest faded visibly.

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**Who acts:** Veils, princess, fresh young faces, mirror, Brunhilda · **What happens:** sing, dance, play, notice, grow, show · **To what, where:** princess, rosy bloom

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Veils, princess, fresh young faces, mirror), 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:pg3282:31:55
# text = They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only the princess noticed that day by day the fresh young faces of her maidens grew pale and wan, and the mirror in the great marble hall showed her that she alone still kept her rosy bloom, while Brunhilda and the rest faded visibly.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
31	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
43	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	iobj	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	still	still	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	Brunhilda	Brunhilda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
60	visibly	visibly	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Veils *= veil* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | Veils *= veil* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | past | Veils *= veil* |  |  |  | morning; night |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **notice** | past | the princess |  |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **grow** | past | the fresh young faces of princess's maidens |  |  |  | day | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | past | the mirror in the great marble hall |  | princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 7 | **keep** | past | princess | princess's rosy bloom |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=Theme |
| 8 | **fade** | past | Brunhilda |  |  |  |  | visibly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **bloom** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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