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title: Before she had recovered from the pain and rage this caused her, the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before she had recovered from the pain and rage this caused her, the Princess had time to escape, and was some way on her road. Who acts: Lagree, this, Princess. 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
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 93

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Before she had recovered from the pain and rage this caused her, the Princess had time to escape, and was some way on her road.

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**Who acts:** Lagree, this, Princess · **What happens:** recover, cause, have, escape, be · **To what, where:** pain, Lagree, way, road

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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, this, Princess), 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:pg640:23:93
# text = Before she had recovered from the pain and rage this caused her, the Princess had time to escape, and was some way on her road.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · perfect | Lagree |  |  | the pain and rage |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pain=Source |
| 2 | **cause** | past | this |  | Lagree |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition she=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Princess |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | some way |  | Lagree's road |  |  | 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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