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title: In every day they grew a year’s growth, and in every night another y… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In every day they grew a year’s growth, and in every night another year’s growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years’ growth in the twinkling of an eye. Who acts: boys, stars, year, three years. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golde
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 82

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In every day they grew a year’s growth, and in every night another year’s growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years’ growth in the twinkling of an eye.

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**Who acts:** boys, stars, year, three years · **What happens:** grow, fade · **To what, where:** growth, twinkling

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, stars, year, three 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:pg641:35:82
# text = In every day they grew a year’s growth, and in every night another year’s growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years’ growth in the twinkling of an eye.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	orphan	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fading	fade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | boys *= boy* | a year's growth |  |  | day | another year's growth *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growth=Theme |
| 2 | **fade** | past · progressive | the stars |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | boys *= boy* | three years's growth |  | the twinkling of a eye | dawn |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growth=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** |  | a year |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **grow** |  | another year |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **grow** |  | three years |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: 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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