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title: When she had nearly worn out the last of these there stood before he… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had nearly worn out the last of these there stood before her the loveliest youth in the world. Who acts: lindorm. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 29

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When she had nearly worn out the last of these there stood before her the loveliest youth in the world.

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**Who acts:** lindorm · **What happens:** wear out, stand · **To what, where:** loveliest youth, world

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lindorm), 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:pg5615:33:29
# text = When she had nearly worn out the last of these there stood before her the loveliest youth in the world.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | past · perfect | lindorm |  |  |  |  | last, nearly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the loveliest youth |  | the world; there | before lindorm |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme before she=Destination |

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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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