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title: He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the morning without meeting wi’ the beasts, and so escape. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 24

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He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the morning without meeting wi’ the beasts, and so escape.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** think, put over, get away, meet, escape · **To what, where:** wi

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg503:56:24
# text = He thought, if he could put over the night, he might get away in the morning without meeting wi’ the beasts, and so escape.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **put over** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | man |  |  |  | night |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get away** | might | man |  |  |  | morning | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | gerund | man *not said here* | wi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **escape** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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