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title: Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze rin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze ring was nowhere to be found! Who acts: you, magician. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 202

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Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze ring was nowhere to be found!

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**Who acts:** you, magician · **What happens:** imagine, awake, find, despair · **To what, where:** despair, bronze ring

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magician), 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:pg503:2:202
# text = Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze ring was nowhere to be found!
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
15	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the despair of the magician |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot despair=Theme |
| 2 | **awake** | past | magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | the bronze ring |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **despair** |  | the magician |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state intransitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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