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title: The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on finding herself in the power of this hideous creature. Who acts: poor child. 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 clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 53

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The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on finding herself in the power of this hideous creature.

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**Who acts:** poor child · **What happens:** be, die, find · **To what, where:** child, power

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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 (poor child), 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:pg640:23:53
# text = The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on finding herself in the power of this hideous creature.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the poor child |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | the poor child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fear; nearly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fear=Causer |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | the poor child *not said here* | child |  | the power of this hideous creature |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |

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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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