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title: But Hábogi, who knew a little magic, and had guessed what they would… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Hábogi, who knew a little magic, and had guessed what they would do, changed the ashes into roses, and cast a spell over the sisters, so that they could not leave the spot for a whole day, and every one who passed by mocked at them. Who acts: Hábogi, sisters, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 35

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But Hábogi, who knew a little magic, and had guessed what they would do, changed the ashes into roses, and cast a spell over the sisters, so that they could not leave the spot for a whole day, and every one who passed by mocked at them.

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**Who acts:** Hábogi, sisters, one · **What happens:** know, guess, do, change, cast, not leave · **To what, where:** little magic, ashes, roses, spell, spot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hábogi, sisters, one), 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:pg3282:14:35
# text = But Hábogi, who knew a little magic, and had guessed what they would do, changed the ashes into roses, and cast a spell over the sisters, so that they could not leave the spot for a whole day, and every one who passed by mocked at them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
51	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	xcomp	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Hábogi | a little magic |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus |
| 2 | **guess** | past · perfect | Hábogi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | would | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **change** | past | Hábogi | the ashes |  |  |  | into roses *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent ash=Patient into rose=Result |
| 5 | **cast** | infinitive |  | a spell |  |  |  | over the sisters | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over sister=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **leave** | could | sisters *= sister* | the spot |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 7 | **pass** | past | every one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mock** | participle | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at sisters *= sister* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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