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title: They both took leave, and the King fully expected never to set eyes… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They both took leave, and the King fully expected never to set eyes on them again. Who acts: pipes, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 58

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They both took leave, and the King fully expected never to set eyes on them again.

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**Who acts:** pipes, King · **What happens:** take, leave, not expect, set · **To what, where:** eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pipes, King), 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:pg7277:48:58
# text = They both took leave, and the King fully expected never to set eyes on them again.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | pipes *= pipe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | pipes *= pipe* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **expect** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | eyes |  |  | again | on pipes *= pipe* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on they=Destination |

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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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