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title: But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and sat down at the foot of a tree to rest, and presently fell fast asleep. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 28

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But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and sat down at the foot of a tree to rest, and presently fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** not use, walk, feel, sit down, rest, fall · **To what, where:** queen, foot

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg503:5:28
# text = But as she was not used to walking far, she soon felt very tired and sat down at the foot of a tree to rest, and presently fell fast asleep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
31	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | past · passive |  | queen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  | the foot of a tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, presently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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 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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