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title: Run after her, and she is sure to fly from you; stay still, and she… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Run after her, and she is sure to fly from you; stay still, and she is sure to come.” Who acts: you, Last. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 122

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Run after her, and she is sure to fly from you; stay still, and she is sure to come.”

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**Who acts:** you, Last · **What happens:** run, be, fly, stay, come

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Last), 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:pg3282:21:122
# text = Run after her, and she is sure to fly from you; stay still, and she is sure to come.”
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after Last |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Last |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Last *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Last |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | Last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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