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title: They had large revenues, and lived happily with each other; but, as… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had large revenues, and lived happily with each other; but, as the years went past, the king’s heart became heavy, because the queen had no children. Who acts: others, heart, queen. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 88

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They had large revenues, and lived happily with each other; but, as the years went past, the king’s heart became heavy, because the queen had no children.

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**Who acts:** others, heart, queen · **What happens:** have, live, go past, become · **To what, where:** large revenues, children

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, heart, queen), 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:pg5615:32:88
# text = They had large revenues, and lived happily with each other; but, as the years went past, the king’s heart became heavy, because the queen had no children.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	revenues	revenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	past	past	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | others *= other* | large revenues |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenue=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with each; happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with each=Location |
| 3 | **go past** | past |  |  |  |  | year | past *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the king's heart |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | the queen | no children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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