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title: Drakestail was in despair of getting himself out of such a deep hole… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Drakestail was in despair of getting himself out of such a deep hole, when he remembered his lady friend, the Ladder. Who acts: Drakestail, despair. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 79

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Drakestail was in despair of getting himself out of such a deep hole, when he remembered his lady friend, the Ladder.

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**Who acts:** Drakestail, despair · **What happens:** be, get, remember · **To what, where:** despair, Drakestail, deep hole, lady friend

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Drakestail, despair), 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:pg540:31:79
# text = Drakestail was in despair of getting himself out of such a deep hole, when he remembered his lady friend, the Ladder.
1	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Drakestail |  |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | despair *not said here* | Drakestail |  | such deep hole |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remember** | past | Drakestail | Drakestail's lady friend and the Ladder |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |

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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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