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title: She overtook her just as the poor girl, overcome by fatigue, had lai… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She overtook her just as the poor girl, overcome by fatigue, had lain down to rest in a cave which the stone had formed itself into to shelter her. Who acts: Lagree, stone. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 91

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She overtook her just as the poor girl, overcome by fatigue, had lain down to rest in a cave which the stone had formed itself into to shelter her.

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**Who acts:** Lagree, stone · **What happens:** overtake, overcome, lie down, rest, form, shelter · **To what, where:** poor girl, cave, Lagree

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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 (Lagree, stone), 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:pg640:23:91
# text = She overtook her just as the poor girl, overcome by fatigue, had lain down to rest in a cave which the stone had formed itself into to shelter her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overtake** | past | Lagree | Lagree's poor girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overcome** | participle |  | Lagree's poor girl *not said here* |  |  |  | by fatigue | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **lie down** | past · perfect | Lagree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Lagree *not said here* |  |  | a cave |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 5 | **form** | past · perfect | the stone | a cave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shelter** | to-infinitive | the stone *not said here* | Lagree |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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