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title: The years passed like the wind for Elsa, and she grew into a lovely… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The years passed like the wind for Elsa, and she grew into a lovely woman, with a knowledge of many things that she would never have learned in her native village; but Kisika was still the same young girl that she had been on the day of her first meeting with Elsa. Who acts: years, greed, Kisika. A 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 128

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The years passed like the wind for Elsa, and she grew into a lovely woman, with a knowledge of many things that she would never have learned in her native village; but Kisika was still the same young girl that she had been on the day of her first meeting with Elsa.

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**Who acts:** years, greed, Kisika · **What happens:** pass, grow, not learn, be · **To what, where:** many things, native village, same young girl

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, greed, Kisika), 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:pg641:2:128
# text = The years passed like the wind for Elsa, and she grew into a lovely woman, with a knowledge of many things that she would never have learned in her native village; but Kisika was still the same young girl that she had been on the day of her first meeting with Elsa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	cop	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	53	amod	_	_
53	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the years |  |  |  |  | like the wind; for Elsa | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | greed |  |  |  |  | into a lovely woman *result*; with a knowledge of many things | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into woman=Result |
| 3 | **not** **learn** | would · perfect | greed | many things |  | greed's native village |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Kisika | the same young girl |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | greed |  |  |  | day | of greed's first meeting; with Elsa | tree rules |

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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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