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title: Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments with them, conjuring up now this longed-for person, and now that, just for the pleasure of seeing them as they appeared; but she really had another purpose in view. Who acts: Day, fires, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Boo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 2

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Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments with them, conjuring up now this longed-for person, and now that, just for the pleasure of seeing them as they appeared; but she really had another purpose in view.

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**Who acts:** Day, fires, princess · **What happens:** pull up, make, conjure up, long, see, appear · **To what, where:** some, experiments, this, fires, purpose, view

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, fires, 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:pg3282:32:2
# text = Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments with them, conjuring up now this longed-for person, and now that, just for the pleasure of seeing them as they appeared; but she really had another purpose in view.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	conjuring	conjure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
22	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	really	really	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
47	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | past | Day by day | some |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Day by day *not said here* | experiments |  |  |  | with fires *= fire* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset experiment=Product |
| 3 | **conjure up** | gerund | Day by day *not said here* | this |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **long** | participle | Day by day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for person | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for person=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | gerund | Day by day *not said here* | fires *= fire* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 6 | **appear** | past | fires *= fire* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | princess | another purpose |  | view |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=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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