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title: Away scampered the thieves, but Mr. Vinegar dared not quit his retre… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Away scampered the thieves, but Mr. Vinegar dared not quit his retreat till broad daylight. Who acts: Vinegar. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 13

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Away scampered the thieves, but Mr. Vinegar dared not quit his retreat till broad daylight.

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**Who acts:** Vinegar · **What happens:** scamper, quit · **To what, where:** thieves, retreat

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar), 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:pg7439:11:13
# text = Away scampered the thieves, but Mr. Vinegar dared not quit his retreat till broad daylight.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	scampered	scamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scamper** | participle |  | the thieves |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location thief=Theme |
| 2 | **quit** | past | Vinegar  Mr. | Jack's retreat |  |  | till broad daylight |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retreat=Source |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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