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title: So she lived in solitude all the daytime, and at night she would hav… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 20

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So she lived in solitude all the daytime, and at night she would have been frightened, had she not been so brave; but every day the crow came and thanked her for her endurance, and assured her that his sufferings were far less than they had been.

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**Who acts:** folk, night, crow, sufferings, room · **What happens:** live, frighten, have, not be, come, thank · **To what, where:** daytime, solitude, folk

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk, night, crow, sufferings), 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:pg640:18:20
# text = So she lived in solitude all the daytime, and at night she would have been frightened, had she not been so brave; but every day the crow came and thanked her for her endurance, and assured her that his sufferings were far less than they had been.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
47	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	obl	_	_
48	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | folk | all daytime |  | solitude |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in solitude=Location |
| 2 | **frighten** | would · perfect · passive | night *not said here* | folk |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | folk *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | participle | folk |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | the crow |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the crow *not said here* |  | folk |  |  | for folk's endurance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for endurance=Attribute |
| 7 | **assure** | past | the crow *not said here* |  | folk |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** | past | room's sufferings |  |  |  |  | far, less *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** | past · perfect | sufferings *= suffering* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **suffer** |  | room |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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