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title: They will rush to eat them up greedily, and when you have scattered… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They will rush to eat them up greedily, and when you have scattered the last crumb you must lose no time in throwing the hare to them; as soon as the hare feels itself on the ground it will run away as quickly as possible, and the wild beasts will turn to pursue it. Who acts: crumbs, you, hare, wild
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 76

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They will rush to eat them up greedily, and when you have scattered the last crumb you must lose no time in throwing the hare to them; as soon as the hare feels itself on the ground it will run away as quickly as possible, and the wild beasts will turn to pursue it.

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**Who acts:** crumbs, you, hare, wild beasts · **What happens:** rush, eat up, scatter, lose, throw, feel · **To what, where:** crumbs, you, hare, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crumbs, you, hare, wild beasts), 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:pg640:30:76
# text = They will rush to eat them up greedily, and when you have scattered the last crumb you must lose no time in throwing the hare to them; as soon as the hare feels itself on the ground it will run away as quickly as possible, and the wild beasts will turn to pursue it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | future | crumbs *= crumb* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | crumbs *= crumb* *not said here* | crumbs *= crumb* |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **scatter** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | must | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | gerund | you *not said here* | the hare | crumbs *= crumb* |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hare=Theme to they=Destination |
| 6 | **feel** | present | the hare | hare |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 7 | **run away** | future | hare |  |  | the ground |  | away, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
| 8 | **turn** | future | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **pursue** | to-infinitive | the wild beasts *not said here* | hare |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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