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title: Years rolled on. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Years rolled on. Who acts: Years. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 26

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Years rolled on.

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**Who acts:** Years · **What happens:** roll on

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years), 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:pg540:16:26
# text = Years rolled on.
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll on** | participle | Years |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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