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title: When she came out of the fainting fit into which she had fallen in h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she came out of the fainting fit into which she had fallen in her terror, her sisters tried to comfort her, saying: Who acts: pig, sisters. 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 39

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When she came out of the fainting fit into which she had fallen in her terror, her sisters tried to comfort her, saying:

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**Who acts:** pig, sisters · **What happens:** come out, fit, fall, try, comfort, say · **To what, where:** terror, pig · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pig, sisters), 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:pg540:12:39
# text = When she came out of the fainting fit into which she had fallen in her terror, her sisters tried to comfort her, saying:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fainting	fainting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	advcl:relcl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | pig |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | present | pig *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the fainting | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent of fainting=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | pig |  |  | pig's terror |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
| 4 | **try** | past | pig's sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **comfort** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | pig's sisters *not said here* | pig |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | pig's sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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