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title: But Lagree had not given up her pursuit, and arrived just as Fairer-… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Lagree had not given up her pursuit, and arrived just as Fairer-than-a-Fairy had fallen fast asleep. Who acts: Fairer, Lagree. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 1

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But Lagree had not given up her pursuit, and arrived just as Fairer-than-a-Fairy had fallen fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** Fairer, Lagree · **What happens:** not give up, arrive, fall, pursue · **To what, where:** Lagree

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairer, Lagree), 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:pg640:24:1
# text = But Lagree had not given up her pursuit, and arrived just as Fairer-than-a-Fairy had fallen fast asleep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | Lagree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | Fairer |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pursue** |  | Lagree |  |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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