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title: Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beau… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago. Who acts: Days, Prince, King, incident. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its depe
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 35

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Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago.

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**Who acts:** Days, Prince, King, incident · **What happens:** pass, grow up, forget, happen · **To what, where:** beautiful youth, last

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Days, Prince, King, incident), 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:pg7277:27:35
# text = Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago.
1	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Days and months and years |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | into a beautiful youth *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into youth=Result |
| 3 | **forget** | past | the King |  |  | last |  | about the incident; all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | the incident |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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