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title: They—ran about in—in all directions, and I—I—ran after them and near… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They—ran about in—in all directions, and I—I—ran after them and nearly died of fatigue. Who acts: sheep, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 97

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They—ran about in—in all directions, and I—I—ran after them and nearly died of fatigue.

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**Who acts:** sheep, I · **What happens:** run about, run, die · **To what, where:** directions

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, I), 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:pg2435:26:97
# text = They—ran about in—in all directions, and I—I—ran after them and nearly died of fatigue.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run about** | past | sheep |  |  | all directions |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run** | past | I |  |  |  | after sheep |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fatigue; nearly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fatigue=Causer |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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