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title: When you have cut down one tree with it just say: ‘So let the forest… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you have cut down one tree with it just say: ‘So let the forest fall,’ and in an instant all the trees will be on the ground. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 9

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When you have cut down one tree with it just say: ‘So let the forest fall,’ and in an instant all the trees will be on the ground.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cut down, say, let, be · **To what, where:** one tree, forest fall, ground · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:24:9
# text = When you have cut down one tree with it just say: ‘So let the forest fall,’ and in an instant all the trees will be on the ground.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut down** | present · perfect | you | one tree |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | with tree | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with it=Manner |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | the forest fall |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fall=Recipient tree=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | future |  |  |  | the ground |  |  | tree rules |

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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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