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title: She was nearly beside herself with grief, and roamed round and round… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was nearly beside herself with grief, and roamed round and round the pond calling on her husband without ceasing. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 7

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She was nearly beside herself with grief, and roamed round and round the pond calling on her husband without ceasing.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, roam, round, call, cease · **To what, where:** grief, pond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (wife), 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:pg640:21:7
# text = She was nearly beside herself with grief, and roamed round and round the pond calling on her husband without ceasing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	roamed	roam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ceasing	cease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | beside wife; with grief; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roam** | participle |  | grief *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **round** | infinitive |  | the pond |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on wife's husband | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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