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title: So at last he had dropped down exhausted, and then he could remember… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So at last he had dropped down exhausted, and then he could remember no more. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 183

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So at last he had dropped down exhausted, and then he could remember no more.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** drop down, exhaust, remember · **To what, where:** last, more

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg640:47:183
# text = So at last he had dropped down exhausted, and then he could remember no more.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop down** | past · perfect | son |  |  | last |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory |
| 2 | **exhaust** | participle | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remember** | could | son | more |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

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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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