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title: Everything passed so quickly; the tree quite forgot to notice itself… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything passed so quickly; the tree quite forgot to notice itself, there was so much to look at all around. Who acts: Everything, tree. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 163

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Everything passed so quickly; the tree quite forgot to notice itself, there was so much to look at all around.

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**Who acts:** Everything, tree · **What happens:** pass, forget, not notice, be, look · **To what, where:** life

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, tree), 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:pg5615:11:163
# text = Everything passed so quickly; the tree quite forgot to notice itself, there was so much to look at all around.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive | the tree *not said here* | life |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer itself=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at around=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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