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title: 'Just look at this; a savage beast has been destroying our crops, an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Just look at this; a savage beast has been destroying our crops, and we can see the traces of his feet!' Who acts: you, savage beast, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 65

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'Just look at this; a savage beast has been destroying our crops, and we can see the traces of his feet!'

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**Who acts:** you, savage beast, we · **What happens:** look, destroy, see · **To what, where:** crops, traces

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, savage beast, we), 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:pg3027:21:65
# text = 'Just look at this; a savage beast has been destroying our crops, and we can see the traces of his feet!'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | present · perfect · progressive | a savage beast | our crops |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | can | we | the traces of mistress's feet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus |

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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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