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title: He fled here from Waq of the Caucasus—it is there you must make inqu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He fled here from Waq of the Caucasus—it is there you must make inquiry; there is no other way of getting at the truth. Who acts: wealth, Caucasus, you, other way. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83

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He fled here from Waq of the Caucasus—it is there you must make inquiry; there is no other way of getting at the truth.

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**Who acts:** wealth, Caucasus, you, other way · **What happens:** flee, be, make, get · **To what, where:** Waq, inquiry, truth

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth, Caucasus, you, other way), 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:pg3282:2:83
# text = He fled here from Waq of the Caucasus—it is there you must make inquiry; there is no other way of getting at the truth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Waq	Waq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | wealth |  |  | Waq of the Caucasus; here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from waq=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Caucasus |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | must | you | inquiry |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product |
| 4 | **be** | present | no other way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | no other way *not said here* |  |  | the truth |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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