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title: It is the nyamatsanes, and they will tear me in pieces,’ and indeed… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the nyamatsanes, and they will tear me in pieces,’ and indeed the cloud of dust was drawing near with amazing quickness, and the nyamatsanes almost felt as if they were already devouring him. Who acts: hero, nyamatsanes, dust. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 15

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It is the nyamatsanes, and they will tear me in pieces,’ and indeed the cloud of dust was drawing near with amazing quickness, and the nyamatsanes almost felt as if they were already devouring him.

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**Who acts:** hero, nyamatsanes, dust · **What happens:** be, tear, draw, feel, devour · **To what, where:** nyamatsanes, me, pieces, cloud, dust

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, nyamatsanes, dust), 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:pg5615:35:15
# text = It is the nyamatsanes, and they will tear me in pieces,’ and indeed the cloud of dust was drawing near with amazing quickness, and the nyamatsanes almost felt as if they were already devouring him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
23	near	near	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	already	already	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | hero | the nyamatsanes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | future | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* | me |  | pieces and the cloud |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location i=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past · progressive | dust | the cloud *not said here* |  |  |  | with amazing quickness; near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | the nyamatsanes |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **devour** | past · progressive | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* | dust |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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