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title: His only thought was to get away as far as possible from that dreadf… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His only thought was to get away as far as possible from that dreadful hut; so he let the river carry him where it was going itself, and at last, one day, he found himself in the warm sea, where, if he is not dead, you may meet him still. Who acts: only thought, turtle, river, thought. A sentence of
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 68

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His only thought was to get away as far as possible from that dreadful hut; so he let the river carry him where it was going itself, and at last, one day, he found himself in the warm sea, where, if he is not dead, you may meet him still.

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**Who acts:** only thought, turtle, river, thought, you · **What happens:** be, let, carry, go, find, not be · **To what, where:** river, turtle, last

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only thought, turtle, river, thought), 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:pg3282:12:68
# text = His only thought was to get away as far as possible from that dreadful hut; so he let the river carry him where it was going itself, and at last, one day, he found himself in the warm sea, where, if he is not dead, you may meet him still.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	still	still	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | turtle's only thought |  |  |  |  | away, far, get *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | past | turtle | the river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | the river *not said here* | turtle |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | thought | river |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | turtle | turtle |  | last |  | in the warm sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at last=Asset |
| 6 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | turtle |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **meet** | may | you | turtle |  |  | still |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **think** |  | turtle |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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