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title: The old woman was afraid that if Gerda saw the roses she would begin… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman was afraid that if Gerda saw the roses she would begin to think about her own, and then would remember Kay and run away. Who acts: old woman, Gerda. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23

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The old woman was afraid that if Gerda saw the roses she would begin to think about her own, and then would remember Kay and run away.

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**Who acts:** old woman, Gerda · **What happens:** be, see, begin, think, remember, run away · **To what, where:** roses, Kay

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Gerda), 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:pg5615:9:23
# text = The old woman was afraid that if Gerda saw the roses she would begin to think about her own, and then would remember Kay and run away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Gerda | the roses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | would | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Gerda's own | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about own=Topic |
| 5 | **remember** | would |  | Kay |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kay=Theme |
| 6 | **run away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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