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title: Peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he st… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he stopped up the entrance to the nest, and everything fell out exactly as Blaize had foretold. Who acts: Peter, that, everything, Blaize. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its d
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 56

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Peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he stopped up the entrance to the nest, and everything fell out exactly as Blaize had foretold.

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**Who acts:** Peter, that, everything, Blaize · **What happens:** have, be, secure, stop up, fall out, foretell · **To what, where:** magic root, entrance

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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 (Peter, that, everything, Blaize), 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:pg2435:16:56
# text = Peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he stopped up the entrance to the nest, and everything fell out exactly as Blaize had foretold.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	Blaize	Blaize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Peter |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **secure** | to-infinitive |  | the magic root |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition root=Theme |
| 4 | **stop up** | past | Peter | the entrance |  |  |  | to the nest | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent entrance=Destination |
| 5 | **fall out** | past | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **foretell** | past · perfect | Blaize |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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