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title: With her large experience, added to her native spite, she found but… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With her large experience, added to her native spite, she found but little difficulty in carrying off Fairer-than-a-Fairy. Who acts: eldest, little difficulty. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 52

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With her large experience, added to her native spite, she found but little difficulty in carrying off Fairer-than-a-Fairy.

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**Who acts:** eldest, little difficulty · **What happens:** add, find, carry off, experience, spite · **To what, where:** large experience, little difficulty, Fairer

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, little difficulty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:1598`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:23:52
# text = With her large experience, added to her native spite, she found but little difficulty in carrying off Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	but	but	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | eldest's large experience *not said here* |  |  |  | to eldest's native spite | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to spite=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | eldest *= eld* | little difficulty |  |  |  | with eldest's large experience | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic |
| 3 | **carry off** | gerund | little difficulty *not said here* | Fairer |  |  |  | than a Fairy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme |
| 4 | **experience** |  | eldest *= eld* |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **spite** |  | eldest *= eld* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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