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title: This is always very dangerous, and it was a great wonder they did no… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This is always very dangerous, and it was a great wonder they did not put their eyes out; but somehow or other they managed to escape. Who acts: This, game, children. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 129

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This is always very dangerous, and it was a great wonder they did not put their eyes out; but somehow or other they managed to escape.

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**Who acts:** This, game, children · **What happens:** be, not put out, manage, escape · **To what, where:** great wonder, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, game, children), 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:pg3282:22:129
# text = This is always very dangerous, and it was a great wonder they did not put their eyes out; but somehow or other they managed to escape.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | always, dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | game | a great wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **put out** | past · do-support | children *= child* | children's eyes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
| 4 | **manage** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **escape** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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