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title: I will go back to the witch and see if she cannot take off the spell… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go back to the witch and see if she cannot take off the spell laid on you by those horrible birds. Who acts: I, witch. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

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I will go back to the witch and see if she cannot take off the spell laid on you by those horrible birds.

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**Who acts:** I, witch · **What happens:** go back, see, not take off, lay · **To what, where:** spell

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, witch), 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:pg3027:12:100
# text = I will go back to the witch and see if she cannot take off the spell laid on you by those horrible birds.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | future | I |  |  |  |  | to the witch *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to witch=Result |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **take off** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | witch | the spell |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | participle |  | the spell *not said here* |  |  |  | on you | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on you=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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