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title: Away flew the factor, while another dinner was providing, and return… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Away flew the factor, while another dinner was providing, and returned with the cat just as the rats and mice were devouring that also. Who acts: dinner, rats. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 47

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Away flew the factor, while another dinner was providing, and returned with the cat just as the rats and mice were devouring that also.

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**Who acts:** dinner, rats · **What happens:** fly, provide, return, devour · **To what, where:** factor, that

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, rats), 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:pg503:29:47
# text = Away flew the factor, while another dinner was providing, and returned with the cat just as the rats and mice were devouring that also.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past |  | the factor |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location factor=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | past · progressive | another dinner |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **return** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with the cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **devour** | past · progressive | the rats and mice | that |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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 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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