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title: But if his enemy happens to know magic, and can throw down the fores… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if his enemy happens to know magic, and can throw down the forest, the man has only to strike the stone with the stick, and hailstones as large as pigeons’ eggs will rain down from the sky and will kill every one for twenty miles round.” Who acts: enemy, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Boo
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 4

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But if his enemy happens to know magic, and can throw down the forest, the man has only to strike the stone with the stick, and hailstones as large as pigeons’ eggs will rain down from the sky and will kill every one for twenty miles round.”

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**Who acts:** enemy, man · **What happens:** happen, know, throw down, have, strike, kill · **To what, where:** magic, forest, stone, one

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, man), 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:pg2435:34:4
# text = But if his enemy happens to know magic, and can throw down the forest, the man has only to strike the stone with the stick, and hailstones as large as pigeons’ eggs will rain down from the sky and will kill every one for twenty miles round.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
38	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
51	round	round	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Bather's enemy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | Bather's enemy *not said here* | magic |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus |
| 3 | **throw down** | can |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **strike** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  | with the stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with stick=Instrument |
| 6 | **kill** | future | the man *not said here* | every one |  |  |  | for twenty miles; round *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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