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title: Then she cracked her second nut, and all the forest behind her seeme… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she cracked her second nut, and all the forest behind her seemed to be in fire and flames, and the evil spirits howled even worse than on the previous day; but the contract they would not give up. Who acts: Spirit, forest, evil spirits, contract. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 96

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Then she cracked her second nut, and all the forest behind her seemed to be in fire and flames, and the evil spirits howled even worse than on the previous day; but the contract they would not give up.

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**Who acts:** Spirit, forest, evil spirits, contract · **What happens:** crack, seem, be, howl, not give up · **To what, where:** second nut, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spirit, forest, evil spirits, contract), 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:pg5615:33:96
# text = Then she cracked her second nut, and all the forest behind her seemed to be in fire and flames, and the evil spirits howled even worse than on the previous day; but the contract they would not give up.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | past | Spirit | Spirit's second nut |  |  | then | all forest *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | all forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | all forest *not said here* |  |  | fire and flames |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **howl** | past | the evil spirits |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **give up** | would | the contract |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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