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title: And what should they run away for, every one of them, so that nothin… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And what should they run away for, every one of them, so that nothing more was over heard or seen of them, from the hour that they were set on guard beside the princess’s chest? Who acts: hour. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 116

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And what should they run away for, every one of them, so that nothing more was over heard or seen of them, from the hour that they were set on guard beside the princess’s chest?

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**Who acts:** hour · **What happens:** run away, hear, see, set · **To what, where:** nothing, king, guard

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour), 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:pg5615:6:116
# text = And what should they run away for, every one of them, so that nothing more was over heard or seen of them, from the hour that they were set on guard beside the princess’s chest?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | should |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  | hour | over *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **set** | past · passive | the hour *not said here* | king |  | guard |  | beside the princess's chest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on guard=Destination |

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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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