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title: Time passed so quickly for both of them that the youth (for now he w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Time passed so quickly for both of them that the youth (for now he was quite a young man, and no more a lad) forgot altogether how long he had been there. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 21

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Time passed so quickly for both of them that the youth (for now he was quite a young man, and no more a lad) forgot altogether how long he had been there.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** pass, be, forget · **To what, where:** Time, young man

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg5615:27:21
# text = Time passed so quickly for both of them that the youth (for now he was quite a young man, and no more a lad) forgot altogether how long he had been there.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
28	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
29	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | Time *not said here* |  |  |  | for both; quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | youth | quite young man |  |  |  | a more lad *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | altogether, long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | youth |  |  |  |  | there *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 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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