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title: Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away and hide because the King, for no reason at all, wishes to kill me?” A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 74

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Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away and hide because the King, for no reason at all, wishes to kill me?”

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**What happens:** believe, oblige, run away, hide, wish, kill · **To what, where:** I, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. 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:pg503:30:74
# text = Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away and hide because the King, for no reason at all, wishes to kill me?”
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | could · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **oblige** | should · passive |  | I |  |  | ever |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **run away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | present |  |  |  |  |  | because the King | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wish** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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