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title: ‘Oh, yes,’ said the little man, ‘You were just about to run away, bu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, yes,’ said the little man, ‘You were just about to run away, but you have taken upon you to stand sentinel in the church to-night, and there you must stay.’ Who acts: little man, You. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 8

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‘Oh, yes,’ said the little man, ‘You were just about to run away, but you have taken upon you to stand sentinel in the church to-night, and there you must stay.’

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**Who acts:** little man, You · **What happens:** say, run away, take, stand, stay · **To what, where:** sentinel, church · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, 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:pg5615:7:8
# text = ‘Oh, yes,’ said the little man, ‘You were just about to run away, but you have taken upon you to stand sentinel in the church to-night, and there you must stay.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
29	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run away** | past | You |  |  |  |  | about, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **stand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sentinel |  | the church | night |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sentinel=Theme in church=Destination |
| 5 | **stay** | must | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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