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title: He made no struggle to get higher, for all his strength had left him… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He made no struggle to get higher, for all his strength had left him, and seeing no hope he calmly awaited death. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 38

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He made no struggle to get higher, for all his strength had left him, and seeing no hope he calmly awaited death.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** make, get, leave, see, await · **To what, where:** struggle, strength, hope, death

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg640:22:38
# text = He made no struggle to get higher, for all his strength had left him, and seeing no hope he calmly awaited death.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | boy | no struggle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Product |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | boy's strength |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | boy *not said here* | no hope |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus |
| 5 | **await** | past | boy | death |  |  |  | calmly *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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