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title: In this way many years passed, and the Prince grew to manhood, and h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way many years passed, and the Prince grew to manhood, and hardly anyone remembered the Queen’s warning, though precautions were still taken, more from use and wont than for any other reason. Who acts: many years, Prince, anyone, Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 39

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In this way many years passed, and the Prince grew to manhood, and hardly anyone remembered the Queen’s warning, though precautions were still taken, more from use and wont than for any other reason.

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**Who acts:** many years, Prince, anyone, Queen · **What happens:** pass, grow, remember, take, warn · **To what, where:** way, warning, precautions

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many years, Prince, anyone, 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:pg640:25:39
# text = In this way many years passed, and the Prince grew to manhood, and hardly anyone remembered the Queen’s warning, though precautions were still taken, more from use and wont than for any other reason.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	precautions	precaution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | many years |  |  | this way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | to manhood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | past | anyone | the Queen's warning |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past · passive |  | precautions |  |  | still |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **warn** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: 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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