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title: Three days more and this unholy spell would have fallen from me, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days more and this unholy spell would have fallen from me, and now, who knows how long I may have to go about in this disgusting shape? Who acts: unholy spell, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 110

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Three days more and this unholy spell would have fallen from me, and now, who knows how long I may have to go about in this disgusting shape?

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**Who acts:** unholy spell, I · **What happens:** fall, know, have, go about · **To what, where:** disgusting shape

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unholy spell, I), 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:pg540:12:110
# text = Three days more and this unholy spell would have fallen from me, and now, who knows how long I may have to go about in this disgusting shape?
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would · perfect | this unholy spell |  |  |  |  | from me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | may | I |  |  |  | now | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go about** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | this disgusting shape |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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