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title: ‘When I grew up and the world came into being, everyone thought I wa… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When I grew up and the world came into being, everyone thought I was the most beautiful girl that ever was seen, though many hated me for it. Who acts: I, world, everyone, many. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 53

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‘When I grew up and the world came into being, everyone thought I was the most beautiful girl that ever was seen, though many hated me for it.

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**Who acts:** I, world, everyone, many · **What happens:** grow up, come, think, be, see, hate · **To what, where:** beautiful girl, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, world, everyone, many), 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:pg641:21:53
# text = ‘When I grew up and the world came into being, everyone thought I was the most beautiful girl that ever was seen, though many hated me for it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | I | the beautiful girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | the beautiful girl |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hate** | past | many | me |  |  |  | for world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus for it=Attribute |

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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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