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title: ‘Get out of the way!’ and with this last summons he drew his sword a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Get out of the way!’ and with this last summons he drew his sword and rushed upon him. Who acts: you, Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 63

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‘Get out of the way!’ and with this last summons he drew his sword and rushed upon him.

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**Who acts:** you, Petru · **What happens:** get out, draw, rush · **To what, where:** way, sword

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (you, Petru), 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:pg641:19:63
# text = ‘Get out of the way!’ and with this last summons he drew his sword and rushed upon him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	summons	summons	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Petru | Petru's sword |  |  |  | with this last summons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Petru | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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