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title: The children played on in the garden, and the youngest had the golde… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The children played on in the garden, and the youngest had the golden star on his breast, which the tree had worn on the happiest evening of its life; and now that was past--and the tree had passed away--and the story too, all ended and done with. Who acts: children, youngest, that, tree. A sentence
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 13

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The children played on in the garden, and the youngest had the golden star on his breast, which the tree had worn on the happiest evening of its life; and now that was past--and the tree had passed away--and the story too, all ended and done with.

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**Who acts:** children, youngest, that, tree · **What happens:** play on, have, wear, be, pass away, do · **To what, where:** garden, golden star, breast, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, youngest, that, 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:pg5615:12:13
# text = The children played on in the garden, and the youngest had the golden star on his breast, which the tree had worn on the happiest evening of its life; and now that was past--and the tree had passed away--and the story too, all ended and done with.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
44	away	away	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
49	too	too	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	conj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play on** | past | the children |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the youngest | the golden star |  | Dumpty's breast |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient |
| 3 | **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tree |  |  | evening |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  | now | past *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass away** | past · perfect | the tree |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | participle | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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