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title: ‘Though every step that I take may perhaps lead me further from her,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Though every step that I take may perhaps lead me further from her,’ he said to himself, ‘I am still thankful to know that she is alive somewhere.’ Who acts: I, step, Prince, Rosalie. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 71

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‘Though every step that I take may perhaps lead me further from her,’ he said to himself, ‘I am still thankful to know that she is alive somewhere.’

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**Who acts:** I, step, Prince, Rosalie · **What happens:** take, lead, say, be, know · **To what, where:** step, me, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, step, Prince, Rosalie), 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:pg640:17:71
# text = ‘Though every step that I take may perhaps lead me further from her,’ he said to himself, ‘I am still thankful to know that she is alive somewhere.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	further	further	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
33	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | I | every step |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | may | every step | me |  |  |  | further, perhaps *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | still | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present | Rosalie |  |  |  |  | alive, somewhere *property* | 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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