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title: ‘Now that they are all in too much pain to move, we had better seize… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now that they are all in too much pain to move, we had better seize our chance and run away. Who acts: sisters, we, our. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 50

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‘Now that they are all in too much pain to move, we had better seize our chance and run away.

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**Who acts:** sisters, we, our · **What happens:** be, move, have, seize, run away, chance · **To what, where:** much pain, chance

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, we, our), 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:pg641:42:50
# text = ‘Now that they are all in too much pain to move, we had better seize our chance and run away.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  | much pain |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | we |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seize** | infinitive | we *not said here* | our chance |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme |
| 5 | **run away** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **chance** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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