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title: Finally he said: 'If a wolf or any wild animal attempts to hurt the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally he said: 'If a wolf or any wild animal attempts to hurt the flock you should pick up a big stone like this' (suiting the action to the word) 'and throw a few such at him, and he will be afraid and go away.' Who acts: farmer, wolf, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Op
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 49

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Finally he said: 'If a wolf or any wild animal attempts to hurt the flock you should pick up a big stone like this' (suiting the action to the word) 'and throw a few such at him, and he will be afraid and go away.'

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**Who acts:** farmer, wolf, you · **What happens:** say, hurt, pick up, suit, throw, be · **To what, where:** flock, big stone, action, few such · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, wolf, you), 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:pg3027:13:49
# text = Finally he said: 'If a wolf or any wild animal attempts to hurt the flock you should pick up a big stone like this' (suiting the action to the word) 'and throw a few such at him, and he will be afraid and go away.'
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	suiting	suit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	38	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | farmer |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a wolf or any wild animal attempts | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Patient |
| 3 | **pick up** | should | you | a big stone |  |  |  | like this | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 4 | **suit** | gerund | farmer *not said here* | the action |  |  |  | to the word | tree rules |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive | farmer *not said here* | a few such |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent such=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | future | farmer |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **go away** | infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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