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title: One day, however, their conversation became so absorbing and time pa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, however, their conversation became so absorbing and time passed so quickly that the Princess forgot to attend to the fire, and it went out. Who acts: conversation, Princess, fire, rays. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 65

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One day, however, their conversation became so absorbing and time passed so quickly that the Princess forgot to attend to the fire, and it went out.

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**Who acts:** conversation, Princess, fire, rays · **What happens:** become, absorb, pass, forget, not attend, go out · **To what, where:** time

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, Princess, fire, rays), 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:pg640:23:65
# text = One day, however, their conversation became so absorbing and time passed so quickly that the Princess forgot to attend to the fire, and it went out.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	absorbing	absorb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | rays's conversation |  |  |  | day | however *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **absorb** | gerund | rays's conversation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |
| 3 | **pass** | participle |  | time *not said here* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **attend** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the fire | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to fire=Theme |
| 6 | **go out** | past | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **converse** |  | rays *= ray* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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.

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