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title: It really seemed bewitched, and no one knows what might have happene… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It really seemed bewitched, and no one knows what might have happened if Wildrose, who had been all the time peeping out of her nest, had not lost patience at the old woman’s stupidity, and cried out: “The tripod won’t stand on that hill, you must move it!” Who acts: It, one, Wildrose, time. A sente
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 65

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It really seemed bewitched, and no one knows what might have happened if Wildrose, who had been all the time peeping out of her nest, had not lost patience at the old woman’s stupidity, and cried out: “The tripod won’t stand on that hill, you must move it!”

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**Who acts:** It, one, Wildrose, time, tripod, you · **What happens:** seem, bewitch, know, happen, be, peep out · **To what, where:** Wildrose, time, nest, patience, stupidity, hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one, Wildrose, time), 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:pg2435:10:65
# text = It really seemed bewitched, and no one knows what might have happened if Wildrose, who had been all the time peeping out of her nest, had not lost patience at the old woman’s stupidity, and cried out: “The tripod won’t stand on that hill, you must move it!”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	Wildrose	Wildrose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
23	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
32	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
44	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **bewitch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** | present | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | might · perfect |  | Wildrose |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past · perfect | Wildrose | all time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **peep out** | gerund | all time *not said here* | Wildrose's nest |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **lose** | past · perfect |  | patience |  | the old woman's stupidity |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 8 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | future | the tripod |  |  | that hill |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 10 | **move** *in a quote* | must | you | tripod |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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