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title: She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest, and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning. Who acts: church, fugitives. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 18

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She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest, and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning.

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**Who acts:** church, fugitives · **What happens:** think, make, pursue, accomplish, destroy · **To what, where:** way, fugitives, destruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, fugitives), 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:pg640:26:18
# text = She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest, and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | church |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | church's way |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 3 | **pursue** | to-infinitive |  | the fugitives |  |  | then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Theme |
| 4 | **accomplish** | infinitive |  | fugitives's destruction |  |  |  | by force or cunning; either *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Eventuality |
| 5 | **destroy** |  | fugitives *= fugitive* |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «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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