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title: Years passed by, and the baby grew up into a find handsome lad, as d… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Years passed by, and the baby grew up into a find handsome lad, as daring as he was beautiful, and as industrious as he was brave. Who acts: Years, baby. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 63

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Years passed by, and the baby grew up into a find handsome lad, as daring as he was beautiful, and as industrious as he was brave.

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**Who acts:** Years, baby · **What happens:** pass by, grow up, be · **To what, where:** find handsome lad

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, baby), 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:pg3282:33:63
# text = Years passed by, and the baby grew up into a find handsome lad, as daring as he was beautiful, and as industrious as he was brave.
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	daring	daring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle | Years |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | the baby |  |  |  |  | into a find handsome lad *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lad=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | baby |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | baby |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |

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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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