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title: As the days went on, the Queen and the little Princess grew thinner… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the days went on, the Queen and the little Princess grew thinner and thinner, for their hard-hearted gaoler gave them every day only three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread, so they were always terribly hungry. Who acts: days, Queen, hearted gaoler, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy B
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 41

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As the days went on, the Queen and the little Princess grew thinner and thinner, for their hard-hearted gaoler gave them every day only three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread, so they were always terribly hungry.

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**Who acts:** days, Queen, hearted gaoler, King · **What happens:** go on, grow, give, boil, be · **To what, where:** three boiled peas, King

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Queen, hearted gaoler, King), 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:pg540:22:41
# text = As the days went on, the Queen and the little Princess grew thinner and thinner, for their hard-hearted gaoler gave them every day only three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread, so they were always terribly hungry.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	45	advmod	_	_
44	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the days |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Queen and the little Princess |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | King's hearted gaoler | three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread | King |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient pea=Theme |
| 4 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | always, hungry, terribly *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 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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