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title: ‘Why those were the runaways, of course,’ she cried, flying into a p… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Why those were the runaways, of course,’ she cried, flying into a passion, ‘and if you had only brought a scrap of the nun’s dress, or a bit of stone from the wall, I should have had them in my power.’ Who acts: wife, you, runaways. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince W
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 61

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‘Why those were the runaways, of course,’ she cried, flying into a passion, ‘and if you had only brought a scrap of the nun’s dress, or a bit of stone from the wall, I should have had them in my power.’

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**Who acts:** wife, you, runaways · **What happens:** be, cry, fly, bring, have · **To what, where:** runaways, passion, scrap, wall, power

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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 (wife, you, runaways), 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:pg641:42:61
# text = ‘Why those were the runaways, of course,’ she cried, flying into a passion, ‘and if you had only brought a scrap of the nun’s dress, or a bit of stone from the wall, I should have had them in my power.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	runaways	runaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | that runaways and course |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a passion and ‘ *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result |
| 4 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you | a scrap of the nun's dress |  | the wall |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme from wall=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | should · perfect | that runaways and course | passion |  | my power |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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