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title: Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much ho… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dâd’s representative, that he hardly got an instant’s real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away. Who acts: king, opportunity, instant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 75

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Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dâd’s representative, that he hardly got an instant’s real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away.

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**Who acts:** king, opportunity, instant · **What happens:** run away, treat, get, slip away, pacify · **To what, where:** king, real peace

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, opportunity, instant), 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:pg3282:34:75
# text = Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dâd’s representative, that he hardly got an instant’s real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away.
1	Willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | would · perfect | king |  |  |  |  | away, willingly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** | past · passive |  | king |  |  |  | with much hospitality; as Wali's representative | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with hospitality=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | king | a instant's real peace |  |  |  | any opportunity *obl*; hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus |
| 4 | **slip away** | gerund | any opportunity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **pacify** |  | a instant |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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