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title: He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, and the sight of the princess’s footprints on the golden sand of the pathway renewed his grief. Who acts: four, sight. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 60

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He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, and the sight of the princess’s footprints on the golden sand of the pathway renewed his grief.

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**Who acts:** four, sight · **What happens:** pass, lose, renew, sight · **To what, where:** gardens, four, grief, footprints

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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 (four, sight), 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:pg3282:32:60
# text = He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, and the sight of the princess’s footprints on the golden sand of the pathway renewed his grief.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | four |  |  | the gardens |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme through garden=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | four |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **renew** | past | the sight of the princess's footprints on the golden sand of the pathway | four's grief |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the princess's footprints on the golden sand of the pathway |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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