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title: Throw me first over this precipice, so that my feathers may be strew… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Throw me first over this precipice, so that my feathers may be strewn here and there, and that all who see them may know that your cunning is greater than mine.” Who acts: you, all, cunning. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 95

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Throw me first over this precipice, so that my feathers may be strewn here and there, and that all who see them may know that your cunning is greater than mine.”

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**Who acts:** you, all, cunning · **What happens:** throw, strewn, see, know, be · **To what, where:** me, precipice, feathers

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, all, cunning), 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:pg2435:24:95
# text = Throw me first over this precipice, so that my feathers may be strewn here and there, and that all who see them may know that your cunning is greater than mine.”
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	strewn	strewn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:outer	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advcl	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | this precipice |  | first *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme over precipice=Destination |
| 2 | **strewn** | may · passive |  | my feathers |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present |  | feathers *= feather* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | may | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | your cunning |  |  |  |  | than mine; great *property* | tree rules |

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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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