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title: I was caught; in a few minutes the fowlers would have been here--wit… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was caught; in a few minutes the fowlers would have been here--without your help I should have been killed. Who acts: fowlers, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 62

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I was caught; in a few minutes the fowlers would have been here--without your help I should have been killed.

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**Who acts:** fowlers, your · **What happens:** catch, be, kill, help · **To what, where:** I

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowlers, your), 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:pg503:28:62
# text = I was caught; in a few minutes the fowlers would have been here--without your help I should have been killed.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fowlers	fowler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | the fowlers |  |  |  | minute | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | should · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | without your help | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **help** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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 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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