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title: So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole. Who acts: woodpecker, sod, nest. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 12

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So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole.

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**Who acts:** woodpecker, sod, nest · **What happens:** touch, block, fly · **To what, where:** sod, nest, hole

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodpecker, sod, nest), 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:pg2435:16:12
# text = So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sod	sod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	blocks	block	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | woodpecker | the sod |  |  |  | with the root; soon *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sod=Experiencer with root=Instrument |
| 2 | **block** | present | the sod | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nest=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | future | nest |  |  | the hole |  | violently *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Location |

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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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