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title: But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to make her way out of the wood, and was now using the last resource in her power to overtake her daughter and the Prince. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its d
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 31

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But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to make her way out of the wood, and was now using the last resource in her power to overtake her daughter and the Prince.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** go, manage, make, use, overtake · **To what, where:** way, wood, last resource, power, daughter

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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 (this), 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:pg640:26:31
# text = But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to make her way out of the wood, and was now using the last resource in her power to overtake her daughter and the Prince.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | this |  |  |  |  | on the wicked old Fairy | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fairy=Location |
| 2 | **manage** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | girl's way |  | the wood |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 4 | **use** | past · progressive |  | the last resource |  | girl's power | now |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient |
| 5 | **overtake** | to-infinitive |  | girl's daughter and the Prince |  |  |  |  | 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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