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title: Left to himself, the full horror of his coming death rushed upon the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 69

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Left to himself, the full horror of his coming death rushed upon the young man, and he understood that he had thrown away his sole chance of life.

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**Who acts:** prisoner, life · **What happens:** leave, come, rush, understand, throw away, die · **To what, where:** full horror, prisoner, coming death, sole chance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, life), 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:pg3454:3:69
# text = Left to himself, the full horror of his coming death rushed upon the young man, and he understood that he had thrown away his sole chance of life.
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	amod	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | the full horror of prisoner's coming death | prisoner |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | participle |  | prisoner's coming death *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the young man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Trajectory |
| 4 | **understand** | past | prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **throw away** | past · perfect | prisoner | prisoner's sole chance of life |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme |
| 6 | **die** |  | prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **chance** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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