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title: First she chased away her cat, lest it should run away when the door… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First she chased away her cat, lest it should run away when the door was opened, then he heard her talking to herself and made out that her lamp wanted trimming, that she might see better who it was that knocked, and then that it lacked fresh oil, and she must refill it. Who acts: woman, cat, uproar
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 33

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First she chased away her cat, lest it should run away when the door was opened, then he heard her talking to herself and made out that her lamp wanted trimming, that she might see better who it was that knocked, and then that it lacked fresh oil, and she must refill it.

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**Who acts:** woman, cat, uproar, lamp, door · **What happens:** chase away, run away, open, hear, talk, make out · **To what, where:** cat, door, woman, fresh oil

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (woman, cat, uproar, lamp), 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:pg7277:36:33
# text = First she chased away her cat, lest it should run away when the door was opened, then he heard her talking to herself and made out that her lamp wanted trimming, that she might see better who it was that knocked, and then that it lacked fresh oil, and she must refill it.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
33	trimming	trim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
39	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	lacked	lack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
51	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	refill	refill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | past | woman | woman's cat |  |  |  | away, first *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 2 | **run away** | should | cat |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | uproar | woman |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **make out** | participle | uproar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **want** | past | woman's lamp |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **trim** *not said to happen* | gerund | woman's lamp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **see** | might | woman |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **knock** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 11 | **lack** | past | door | fresh oil |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **refill** | must | woman | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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