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title: The unfortunate girl is pining away in some unknown land, where perh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The unfortunate girl is pining away in some unknown land, where perhaps no foot of man has ever trod, and I shall see her no more. Who acts: unfortunate girl, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 22

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The unfortunate girl is pining away in some unknown land, where perhaps no foot of man has ever trod, and I shall see her no more.

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**Who acts:** unfortunate girl, I · **What happens:** pine away, tread, see · **To what, where:** unknown land, foot, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (unfortunate girl, I), 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:pg640:16:22
# text = The unfortunate girl is pining away in some unknown land, where perhaps no foot of man has ever trod, and I shall see her no more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pining	pine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	trod	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pine away** | present · progressive | the unfortunate girl |  |  | some unknown land |  | away *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **tread** | present · perfect · passive |  | no foot of man |  |  | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | shall | I | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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