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title: It was too late to attempt anything now; and, besides, the poor yout… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was too late to attempt anything now; and, besides, the poor youth was very tired, so he lay down on the ground and fell fast asleep. Who acts: It, poor youth, youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 86

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It was too late to attempt anything now; and, besides, the poor youth was very tired, so he lay down on the ground and fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** It, poor youth, youth · **What happens:** be, attempt, lie down, fall · **To what, where:** anything, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, poor youth, youth), 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:pg5615:22:86
# text = It was too late to attempt anything now; and, besides, the poor youth was very tired, so he lay down on the ground and fell fast asleep.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | It |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attempt** | to-infinitive |  | anything |  |  | now |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the poor youth |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie down** | past | youth |  |  | the ground |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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