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title: Their father and mother, seeing them busy at their work, got away fr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their father and mother, seeing them busy at their work, got away from them insensibly, and ran away from them all at once, along a by-way through the winding bushes. Who acts: father, pockets. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 19

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Their father and mother, seeing them busy at their work, got away from them insensibly, and ran away from them all at once, along a by-way through the winding bushes.

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**Who acts:** father, pockets · **What happens:** see, get away, run away, work · **To what, where:** pockets

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, pockets), 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:pg503:33:19
# text = Their father and mother, seeing them busy at their work, got away from them insensibly, and ran away from them all at once, along a by-way through the winding bushes.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	insensibly	insensibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | pockets's father and mother *not said here* | pockets *= pocket* |  |  |  | busy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get away** | past | pockets's father and mother |  |  |  |  | from pockets *= pocket*; away, insensibly *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source |
| 3 | **run away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | from pockets *= pocket*; away, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory |
| 4 | **work** |  | pockets *= pocket* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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