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title: Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 8

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Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** go past, grow, live, fit out, sail out · **To what, where:** ship, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg640:49:8
# text = Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	past	past	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go past** | past |  |  |  |  | time | past *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fit out** | participle | the King | Hermod's ship |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 5 | **sail out** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  | sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to sea=Trajectory |

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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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