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title: At last the mother got impatient and climbed up herself, but she was… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the mother got impatient and climbed up herself, but she was even less successful than Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes in catching hold of the fruit, and only grasped at the empty air. Who acts: last mother, mother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Li
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 92

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At last the mother got impatient and climbed up herself, but she was even less successful than Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes in catching hold of the fruit, and only grasped at the empty air.

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**Who acts:** last mother, mother · **What happens:** get, climb up, be, catch, grasp, hold · **To what, where:** mother, hold, empty air, fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last mother, mother), 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:pg7277:40:92
# text = At last the mother got impatient and climbed up herself, but she was even less successful than Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes in catching hold of the fruit, and only grasped at the empty air.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
30	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the last mother |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **climb up** | past | the last mother *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | than Little One eye and Little Three eyes; less, successful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | gerund | mother *not said here* | hold of the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 5 | **grasp** | participle | mother *not said here* |  |  | the empty air |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the fruit |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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