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title: Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but the prince shouted: “Whither away, accursed one? Who acts: taq, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48

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Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but the prince shouted: “Whither away, accursed one?

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**Who acts:** taq, prince · **What happens:** leave, retire, shout, accurs · **To what, where:** Taram taq, fort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taq, prince), 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:pg3282:4:48
# text = Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but the prince shouted: “Whither away, accursed one?
1	Taram	Taram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	taq	taq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Taram taq |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **retire** | would · perfect | taq |  |  | taq's fort |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accurs** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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