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title: She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger, and even her staff… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger, and even her staff was no further help to her, for in her many wanderings it had become quite blunted. Who acts: staff, mother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 162

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She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger, and even her staff was no further help to her, for in her many wanderings it had become quite blunted.

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**Who acts:** staff, mother · **What happens:** wear out, be, become, blunt, wander · **To what, where:** mother, further help

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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 (staff, mother), 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:pg540:12:162
# text = She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger, and even her staff was no further help to her, for in her many wanderings it had become quite blunted.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	blunted	blunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | mother |  |  |  | with weariness and hunger | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past | mother's staff | no further help | mother |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | staff |  |  |  |  | for mother's many wanderings | tree rules |
| 4 | **blunt** | participle | staff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **wander** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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