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title: Giving up the combat, he flew toward the Princess, to rescue or to d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving up the combat, he flew toward the Princess, to rescue or to die with her; but the Yellow Dwarf was too quick for him. Who acts: much, Yellow Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 59

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Giving up the combat, he flew toward the Princess, to rescue or to die with her; but the Yellow Dwarf was too quick for him.

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**Who acts:** much, Yellow Dwarf · **What happens:** give up, fly, rescue, die, be · **To what, where:** combat

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (much, Yellow Dwarf), 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:pg503:6:59
# text = Giving up the combat, he flew toward the Princess, to rescue or to die with her; but the Yellow Dwarf was too quick for him.
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | gerund | much *not said here* | the combat |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Source |
| 2 | **fly** | past | much |  |  |  |  | toward the Princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward princess=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rescue** | to-infinitive | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Princess | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Yellow Dwarf |  |  |  |  | for much; quick *property* | tree rules |

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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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