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title: And one can imagine that at this check he might be frightened, for w… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And one can imagine that at this check he might be frightened, for who would be more terrified than a magician who sees his magic fail, and who, knowing of power, will guess at powers of which he has no conception and may well dread. Who acts: one, magician, Fire. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» b
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 19

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And one can imagine that at this check he might be frightened, for who would be more terrified than a magician who sees his magic fail, and who, knowing of power, will guess at powers of which he has no conception and may well dread.

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**Who acts:** one, magician, Fire · **What happens:** imagine, frighten, be, see, know, guess · **To what, where:** Fire, check, magic fail, powers, conception

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, magician, Fire), 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:pg2892:27:19
# text = And one can imagine that at this check he might be frightened, for who would be more terrified than a magician who sees his magic fail, and who, knowing of power, will guess at powers of which he has no conception and may well dread.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
45	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
49	dread	dread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **frighten** | might · passive |  | Fire |  | this check |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | than a magician; terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | a magician | Fire's magic fail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fail=Stimulus |
| 5 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of power | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of power=Stimulus |
| 6 | **guess** | future |  |  |  | powers |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at power=Value |
| 7 | **have** | present | Fire | no conception |  |  |  | of powers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient |
| 8 | **dread** | may | Fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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