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title: She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women f… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women find in such cases. Who acts: wife, this, women. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 110

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She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women find in such cases.

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**Who acts:** wife, this, women · **What happens:** faint away, be, find · **To what, where:** first expedient, such cases

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, this, women), 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:pg503:33:110
# text = She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women find in such cases.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	expedient	expedient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint away** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for the first expedient | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | all women | the first expedient *not said here* |  | such cases |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedient=Topic |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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