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title: ‘I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which smells so, notwithstanding.’ Who acts: I, bird. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 26

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‘I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which smells so, notwithstanding.’

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**Who acts:** I, bird · **What happens:** haste, get away, be, notwithstand · **To what, where:** enough, bird

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bird), 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:pg540:46:26
# text = ‘I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which smells so, notwithstanding.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	haste	haste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haste** | may | I | enough |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | bird |  |  | again | away *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | must | bird |  |  |  |  | smell *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **notwithstand** | gerund | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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