--- title: But year after year went by, and the boy grew up and became a great… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But year after year went by, and the boy grew up and became a great hunter, and the lord of the land took him into his service, for he was as smart and bold a hunter as you would wish to see. Who acts: boy, lord, miller, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lord, miller, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:20:89 # text = But year after year went by, and the boy grew up and became a great hunter, and the lord of the land took him into his service, for he was as smart and bold a hunter as you would wish to see. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go by** | past | | | | | year | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow up** | past | the boy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past | the boy *not said here* | a great hunter | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | the lord of the land | boy | | miller's service | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into service=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | miller | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | miller *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wish** | would | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **service** | | miller | | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/90/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)