--- title: So I have resolved to put myself out of my pain by means of the Gold… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So I have resolved to put myself out of my pain by means of the Golden Fountain. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/78/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/) / 78 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 78 So I have resolved to put myself out of my pain by means of the Golden Fountain. **Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** resolve, put, mean, pain · **To what, where:** myself, pain 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, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:17:78 # text = So I have resolved to put myself out of my pain by means of the Golden Fountain. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 resolved resolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 nsubj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 6 obl _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Fountain Fountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resolve** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself | | my pain | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme out pain=Destination | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of the Golden Fountain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pain** | | my | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/79/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)