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title: Now this man was no other than the father of the boy’s mother, who h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 126

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Now this man was no other than the father of the boy’s mother, who had fled away from his own kingdom for fear his grandson should find him and kill him after all.

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**Who acts:** man, mother, grandson · **What happens:** be, flee away, find, kill · **To what, where:** own kingdom, man

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mother, grandson), 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:pg503:27:126
# text = Now this man was no other than the father of the boy’s mother, who had fled away from his own kingdom for fear his grandson should find him and kill him after all.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this man |  |  |  | now | than the father of the boy's mother; other *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee away** | past · perfect | the boy's mother |  |  | boy's own kingdom for fear |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | should | boy's grandson | man |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | boy's grandson *not said here* | man |  |  | after all |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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