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title: And as before, when she sewed the Count felt his pains grow less, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as before, when she sewed the Count felt his pains grow less, and the life sinking within him, and when the needle made the last stitch he gave his last sigh. Who acts: Renelde, Count, pains, life. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree an
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 149

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And as before, when she sewed the Count felt his pains grow less, and the life sinking within him, and when the needle made the last stitch he gave his last sigh.

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**Who acts:** Renelde, Count, pains, life, needle · **What happens:** sew, feel, grow, sink, make, give · **To what, where:** last stitch, last sigh

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde, Count, pains, life), 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:pg540:42:149
# text = And as before, when she sewed the Count felt his pains grow less, and the life sinking within him, and when the needle made the last stitch he gave his last sigh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stitch	stitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | Renelde |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the Count |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | Count's pains |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sink** | gerund | the life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within Count | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | the life | the last stitch |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product |
| 6 | **give** | past | needle | Count's last sigh |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 7 | **pain** |  | Count |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **sigh** |  | Count |  |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication 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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