--- title: This made him take heart again, and he gave up the idea of killing h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This made him take heart again, and he gave up the idea of killing himself, thinking that he would go on in hope of meeting some one who could tell him where the Blue Mountains were. Who acts: This, loss, idea, hope. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, loss, idea, hope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:45:97 # text = This made him take heart again, and he gave up the idea of killing himself, thinking that he would go on in hope of meeting some one who could tell him where the Blue Mountains were. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 23 on on ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Blue Blue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | This | loss | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | loss *not said here* | heart | | | again | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 3 | **give up** | past | loss | the idea | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source | | 4 | **kill** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | loss | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | loss *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **go on** | would | loss | | | hope | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hope=Location | | 7 | **meet** | gerund | hope *not said here* | some one | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | some one | | loss | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 9 | **be** | past | the Blue Mountains | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/98/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/)