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title: So they determined to run away together and after the giant's daught… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they determined to run away together and after the giant's daughter had tidied up her hair a bit and got her magic flask they set out together as fast as they could run. Who acts: eggs. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 42

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So they determined to run away together and after the giant's daughter had tidied up her hair a bit and got her magic flask they set out together as fast as they could run.

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**Who acts:** eggs · **What happens:** determine, run away, tidy up, get, set out, run · **To what, where:** hair, magic flask

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eggs), 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:pg7439:12:42
# text = So they determined to run away together and after the giant's daughter had tidied up her hair a bit and got her magic flask they set out together as fast as they could run.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tidied	tidy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **run away** | to-infinitive | eggs *= egg* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tidy up** | past · perfect | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | daughter's hair |  |  | after the giant's daughter | a bit *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | past | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | daughter's magic flask |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set out** | past | eggs *= egg* | daughter's magic flask *not said here* |  |  |  | fast, together *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | could | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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