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title: When he had learned all this he did not think it worth while staying… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had learned all this he did not think it worth while staying there any longer, so he ran away home to his parents again. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 26

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When he had learned all this he did not think it worth while staying there any longer, so he ran away home to his parents again.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** learn, not think, stay, run away · **To what, where:** this, plenty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg5615:24:26
# text = When he had learned all this he did not think it worth while staying there any longer, so he ran away home to his parents again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	any	any	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past · perfect | boy | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | boy | plenty |  |  |  | worth *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  | there |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | past | boy |  |  |  | again | to boy's parents *result*; away, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to parent=Result |

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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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