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title: The terrified woodcutter fled as fast as his legs would carry him, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The terrified woodcutter fled as fast as his legs would carry him, and after that neither orders nor threats would drive anybody to the enchanted moor. Who acts: terrified woodcutter, legs, orders. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 12

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The terrified woodcutter fled as fast as his legs would carry him, and after that neither orders nor threats would drive anybody to the enchanted moor.

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**Who acts:** terrified woodcutter, legs, orders · **What happens:** flee, carry, drive, enchant · **To what, where:** woodcutter, anybody, enchanted moor

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrified woodcutter, legs, orders), 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:pg641:2:12
# text = The terrified woodcutter fled as fast as his legs would carry him, and after that neither orders nor threats would drive anybody to the enchanted moor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | the terrified woodcutter |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | would | woodcutter's legs | woodcutter |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | would | neither orders nor threats | anybody |  | the enchanted moor |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anybody=Theme to moor=Trajectory |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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