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title: And so the days passed quickly as before; it was impossible to feel… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so the days passed quickly as before; it was impossible to feel dull with the White Cat, and she had quite a talent for inventing new amusements--indeed, she was cleverer than a cat has any right to be. Who acts: days, Cat. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 5

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And so the days passed quickly as before; it was impossible to feel dull with the White Cat, and she had quite a talent for inventing new amusements--indeed, she was cleverer than a cat has any right to be.

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**Who acts:** days, Cat · **What happens:** pass, be, feel, have, invent · **To what, where:** talent, new amusements, right

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Cat), 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:pg503:24:5
# text = And so the days passed quickly as before; it was impossible to feel dull with the White Cat, and she had quite a talent for inventing new amusements--indeed, she was cleverer than a cat has any right to be.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
15	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	advcl	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	amusements	amusement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
37	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the days |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | Cat | quite talent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient |
| 5 | **invent** | gerund | Cat *not said here* | new amusements |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Result |
| 6 | **is** | past | Cat |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present | a cat | any right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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