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title: He did not try to escape, as most boys of his age would have done, f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not try to escape, as most boys of his age would have done, for the wisdom put into his mind by the good spirits taught him that before he could reach the river and make use of the bridge the Bad One would have tracked him by his footsteps and been upon him. Who acts: door, wisdom, good spiri
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 26

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He did not try to escape, as most boys of his age would have done, for the wisdom put into his mind by the good spirits taught him that before he could reach the river and make use of the bridge the Bad One would have tracked him by his footsteps and been upon him.

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**Who acts:** door, wisdom, good spirits, footsteps · **What happens:** not try, escape, do, put, teach, reach · **To what, where:** most boys, mind, door, river, use, bridge

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, wisdom, good spirits, footsteps), 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:pg3282:7:26
# text = He did not try to escape, as most boys of his age would have done, for the wisdom put into his mind by the good spirits taught him that before he could reach the river and make use of the bridge the Bad One would have tracked him by his footsteps and been upon him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
40	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux	_	_
49	tracked	track	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	parataxis	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
56	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **try** | past · do-support | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | would · perfect · passive |  | most boys of door's age |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **put** | past | the wisdom |  |  | door's mind |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the good spirits |  | door |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **reach** | could | door | the river |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 8 | **track** | would · perfect · passive | door's footsteps | use of the bridge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | participle | door's footsteps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon door | tree rules |
| 10 | **mind** |  | door |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **use** |  |  | the bridge |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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