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title: Our heroine obeyed with great sweetness, and without having been abl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Our heroine obeyed with great sweetness, and without having been able to take leave of her lover she set off to go to Locrinos as to certain death. Who acts: heroine. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 69

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Our heroine obeyed with great sweetness, and without having been able to take leave of her lover she set off to go to Locrinos as to certain death.

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**Who acts:** heroine · **What happens:** obey, have, be, take, set off, go · **To what, where:** leave, Locrinos

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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 (heroine), 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:pg640:23:69
# text = Our heroine obeyed with great sweetness, and without having been able to take leave of her lover she set off to go to Locrinos as to certain death.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	nsubj	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Locrinos	Locrinos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | participle | Our heroine |  |  |  |  | with great sweetness | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | leave of heroine's lover |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 5 | **set off** | past | heroine | leave of heroine's lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition leave=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | heroine *not said here* |  |  | Locrinos |  | as certain death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to locrinos=Initial\_Location |

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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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