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title: So the master went out and called from some distance off, for he was… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the master went out and called from some distance off, for he was really afraid to go near the man, ‘You filthy beggar, leave my house at once!’ Who acts: master, You. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 28

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So the master went out and called from some distance off, for he was really afraid to go near the man, ‘You filthy beggar, leave my house at once!’

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**Who acts:** master, You · **What happens:** go out, call off, be, go, beggar, leave · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, You), 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:pg5615:39:28
# text = So the master went out and called from some distance off, for he was really afraid to go near the man, ‘You filthy beggar, leave my house at once!’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	filthy	filthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call off** *speech: assert* | participle | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from some distance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from distance=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | master |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near the man | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near man=Location |
| 5 | **beggar** |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | infinitive |  | my house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at once=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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