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title: We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hide ourselves at first under different animal shapes. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 36

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We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hide ourselves at first under different animal shapes.

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**What happens:** oblige, take, hide · **To what, where:** We, refuge, distant lands, ourselves, different animal shapes

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:37:36
# text = We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hide ourselves at first under different animal shapes.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | We |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | refuge |  | distant lands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in land=Location |
| 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | ourselves |  | different animal shapes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient at first=Location |

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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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