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title: She had not gone far before the heat of the sun and the weight of th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had not gone far before the heat of the sun and the weight of the box tired her so much that she sat down to rest in the shade of a little wood which lay on one side of a green meadow. Who acts: Graciosa, little wood, sun. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet,
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 21

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She had not gone far before the heat of the sun and the weight of the box tired her so much that she sat down to rest in the shade of a little wood which lay on one side of a green meadow.

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**Who acts:** Graciosa, little wood, sun · **What happens:** not go, sit down, rest, lie, heat, shade · **To what, where:** heat, shade, one side, little wood

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, little wood, sun), 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:pg540:25:21
# text = She had not gone far before the heat of the sun and the weight of the box tired her so much that she sat down to rest in the shade of a little wood which lay on one side of a green meadow.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Graciosa |  |  | the heat of the sun and the weight of the box |  | far *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before heat=Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* |  |  | the shade of a little wood |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | past | a little wood |  |  | one side of a green meadow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 5 | **heat** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **shade** |  |  | a little wood |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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