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title: Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking! — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking! Who acts: nut, nose. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 22

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Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking!

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**Who acts:** nut, nose · **What happens:** suppose, be, cause, shrink · **To what, where:** shrinking · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut, nose), 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:pg2435:12:22
# text = Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking!
1	Supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shrinking	shrinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | that nut |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | to-infinitive | that nut *not said here* | nose's shrinking |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition shrinking=Patient |
| 4 | **shrink** |  | nose |  |  |  |  |  | nom shrinking «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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