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title: At last, wearied with her long journey and worn out and overcome wit… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, wearied with her long journey and worn out and overcome with sorrow, but still with hope at her heart, she reached a house. Who acts: fate. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 116

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At last, wearied with her long journey and worn out and overcome with sorrow, but still with hope at her heart, she reached a house.

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**Who acts:** fate · **What happens:** weary, wear out, overcome, reach, journey · **To what, where:** house, last

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1277`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:12:116
# text = At last, wearied with her long journey and worn out and overcome with sorrow, but still with hope at her heart, she reached a house.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | participle | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fate's long journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wear out** | participle | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **overcome** | participle | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sorrow | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **reach** | past | fate | a house |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at last=Asset |
| 5 | **journey** |  | fate |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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