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title: But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend herself with if anything should come near her. Who acts: world, stick, anything. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61

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But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend herself with if anything should come near her.

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**Who acts:** world, stick, anything · **What happens:** be, go away, have, defend, come · **To what, where:** stick, world

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, stick, anything), 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:pg5615:31:61
# text = But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend herself with if anything should come near her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	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 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | world *not said here* |  |  | there |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | world *not said here* | a stick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defend** | to-infinitive | a stick *not said here* | world |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | anything |  |  |  |  | near world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |

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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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