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title: Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren: and when they, in their turn, became grannies, they remembered them, and told them also. Who acts: wor
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 11

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Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren: and when they, in their turn, became grannies, they remembered them, and told them also.

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**Who acts:** world, old grannies, grannies, tales · **What happens:** become, grow up, not write down, forget, remember, tell · **To what, where:** fairy tales, tales, grannies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, old grannies, grannies, tales), 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:pg7277:1:11
# text = Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren: and when they, in their turn, became grannies, they remembered them, and told them also.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	grannies	grannie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
49	grannies	grannie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	iobj	_	_
58	also	also	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the world |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **write down** | past · passive |  | the fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | would · perfect · passive |  | the fairy tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **remember** | past | the old grannies | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the world *not said here* |  | tales *= tale* |  |  | to the little grandchildren | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to grandchild=Recipient |
| 7 | **become** | past | grannies *= grannie* | grannies |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **remember** | past | tales *= tale* | grannies *= grannie* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | tales *= tale* *not said here* |  | grannies *= grannie* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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