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title: And if everything round about you turns blue, I have beaten the Old… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And if everything round about you turns blue, I have beaten the Old One; but should all things turn red, he'll have conquered me." Who acts: everything, I, things, Bull. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 4

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And if everything round about you turns blue, I have beaten the Old One; but should all things turn red, he'll have conquered me."

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**Who acts:** everything, I, things, Bull · **What happens:** turn, beat, conquer · **To what, where:** Old One, me

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, I, things, Bull), 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:pg14241:17:4
# text = And if everything round about you turns blue, I have beaten the Old One; but should all things turn red, he'll have conquered me."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
7	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | everything |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | present · perfect | I | the Old One |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | should | things |  |  |  |  | all, red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **conquer** | future · perfect | Bull | me |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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