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title: Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king’s absence th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king’s absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree. Who acts: Two more years, stepmother, Dotterine, king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 64

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Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king’s absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.

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**Who acts:** Two more years, stepmother, Dotterine, king · **What happens:** slip by, find, sit, absent · **To what, where:** Dotterine, lime tree

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two more years, stepmother, Dotterine, 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:pg641:12:64
# text = Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king’s absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip by** | participle | Two more years |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past | the stepmother | Dotterine |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dotterine=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | Dotterine *not said here* |  |  | a lime tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 4 | **absent** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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