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title: His life passed by, and each hour seemed happier than the last, when… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His life passed by, and each hour seemed happier than the last, when one day there rushed over him a terrible longing to see his parents. Who acts: life, hour, one day. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86

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His life passed by, and each hour seemed happier than the last, when one day there rushed over him a terrible longing to see his parents.

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**Who acts:** life, hour, one day · **What happens:** pass by, seem, rush, see · **To what, where:** terrible longing, parents

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, hour, one day), 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:pg5615:3:86
# text = His life passed by, and each hour seemed happier than the last, when one day there rushed over him a terrible longing to see his parents.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle | maid's life |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | each hour |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past | one day | a terrible longing |  |  |  | over maid | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent longing=Theme over he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | one day *not said here* | maid's parents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |

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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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