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title: At last, after the lapse of five long years, I noticed some blossoms… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after the lapse of five long years, I noticed some blossoms on the branches, and a few days later the most exquisite fruit my eyes had ever seen. Who acts: I, five long years. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 11

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At last, after the lapse of five long years, I noticed some blossoms on the branches, and a few days later the most exquisite fruit my eyes had ever seen.

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**Who acts:** I, five long years · **What happens:** notice, see, lapse · **To what, where:** blossoms, last lapse, exquisite fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, five long years), 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:pg640:30:11
# text = At last, after the lapse of five long years, I noticed some blossoms on the branches, and a few days later the most exquisite fruit my eyes had ever seen.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lapse	lapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | I | some blossoms |  | the last lapse of five long years |  | on the branches | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer blossom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the exquisite fruit and my eyes |  |  | ever | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lapse** |  | five long years |  |  |  |  |  | nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=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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