--- title: At last, worn out with sorrow and fatigue, she fell asleep and dream… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last, worn out with sorrow and fatigue, she fell asleep and dreamt that she was wandering along a flowery meadow, when she came to a hut where she found an old witch, who promised to restore her husband to her. Who acts: wife, old witch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, old witch), 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:pg640:21:8 # text = At last, worn out with sorrow and fatigue, she fell asleep and dreamt that she was wandering along a flowery meadow, when she came to a hut where she found an old witch, who promised to restore her husband to her. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dreamt dreamt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 along along ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 flowery flowery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear out** | participle | | | | last | | with sorrow and fatigue | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at last=Source | | 2 | **fall** | past | wife | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dreamt** | past | wife *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | wife | | | | | along a flowery meadow | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **come** | past | wife | | | a hut | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **find** | past | wife | a old witch | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | | 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | a old witch | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **restore** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a old witch *not said here* | wife's husband | wife | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to she=Recipient | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/9/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/)