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title: When at last he stood within the little hut he saw with despair that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last he stood within the little hut he saw with despair that it was a picture of poverty, and that not a crumb of anything eatable was to be seen, and when he explained to the old woman that he was dying of hunger and fatigue she only answered tranquilly that he must have patience. Who acts:
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 35

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When at last he stood within the little hut he saw with despair that it was a picture of poverty, and that not a crumb of anything eatable was to be seen, and when he explained to the old woman that he was dying of hunger and fatigue she only answered tranquilly that he must have patience.

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**Who acts:** Prince, despair, woman · **What happens:** stand, see, be, explain, die, answer · **To what, where:** last, picture, crumb, old woman, hunger, patience · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, despair, woman), 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:pg7277:36:35
# text = When at last he stood within the little hut he saw with despair that it was a picture of poverty, and that not a crumb of anything eatable was to be seen, and when he explained to the old woman that he was dying of hunger and fatigue she only answered tranquilly that he must have patience.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nmod	_	_
29	eatable	eatable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	ccomp	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	only	only	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
54	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
59	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Prince |  |  | last |  | within the little hut | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | with despair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | despair | a picture |  |  |  | of poverty | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past · passive |  | a crumb of anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Prince |  | the old woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **die** | past · progressive | Prince |  |  |  |  | of hunger and fatigue | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
| 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | woman | hunger and fatigue *not said here* |  |  |  | tranquilly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Eventuality |
| 8 | **have** | must | Prince | patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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