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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 30

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With a beating heart he flung it to the ground, wishing with all his might that it should turn into a bridge, and fearing that, after all, this might prove beyond its power.

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**Who acts:** city, rod, this · **What happens:** fling, wish, turn, fear, prove · **To what, where:** rod, ground, bridge, that

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, rod, this), 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:pg2435:19:30
# text = With a beating heart he flung it to the ground, wishing with all his might that it should turn into a bridge, and fearing that, after all, this might prove beyond its power.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
35	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | city | rod |  | the ground |  | with a beating heart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 2 | **wish** | gerund | city *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **turn** | should | rod |  |  | a bridge |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bridge=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fear** | gerund | city *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **prove** | might | this |  |  |  | after all | beyond rod's power | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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