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title: But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword. Who acts: girl, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 74

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But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword.

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**Who acts:** girl, man · **What happens:** be, cry out, have, spring, run through · **To what, where:** long way, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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:pg5615:21:74
# text = But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | girl |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | with giant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spring** | would | man |  |  |  |  | upon girl; else *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory |
| 5 | **run through** | infinitive | man *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | with man's sword | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product with sword=Material |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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