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title: She felt as though she should certainly expire, and it was with some… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She felt as though she should certainly expire, and it was with some difficulty that she dragged herself as far as a pretty little green and white house, which stood at no great distance. Who acts: Lagree, heroine, pretty house. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountai
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 4

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She felt as though she should certainly expire, and it was with some difficulty that she dragged herself as far as a pretty little green and white house, which stood at no great distance.

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**Who acts:** Lagree, heroine, pretty house · **What happens:** feel, expire, be, drag, stand · **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 (Lagree, heroine, pretty house), 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:pg640:24:4
# text = She felt as though she should certainly expire, and it was with some difficulty that she dragged herself as far as a pretty little green and white house, which stood at no great distance.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	expire	expire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Lagree |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **expire** | should | Lagree |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | heroine |  |  |  |  | with some difficulty | tree rules |
| 4 | **drag** | past | Lagree | Lagree |  |  |  | as a pretty house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | a pretty house |  |  |  |  | at no great distance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=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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