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title: But considering again that it was perhaps still in their power to be… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But considering again that it was perhaps still in their power to become alive again, I gave over the attempt and climbed with difficulty up a tree, bringing my sword in my hand and all the gold along with me. Who acts: I, sword. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 77

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But considering again that it was perhaps still in their power to become alive again, I gave over the attempt and climbed with difficulty up a tree, bringing my sword in my hand and all the gold along with me.

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**Who acts:** I, sword · **What happens:** consider, be, become, give, climb, bring · **To what, where:** power, attempt, tree, sword, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sword), 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:pg540:8:77
# text = But considering again that it was perhaps still in their power to become alive again, I gave over the attempt and climbed with difficulty up a tree, bringing my sword in my hand and all the gold along with me.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	along	along	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | sword |  |  | shapes's power | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | I |  |  | the attempt |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **climb** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | a tree |  | with difficulty | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | I *not said here* | my sword |  | my hand and all gold |  | along me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sword=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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