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title: But this did not prove easy, for the magic stone would only serve fo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But this did not prove easy, for the magic stone would only serve for one person at a time, and in order to save Rosalie the Prince of the Golden Isle would have to expose himself to the fury of his enemy. Who acts: this, magic stone, Rosalie. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 63

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But this did not prove easy, for the magic stone would only serve for one person at a time, and in order to save Rosalie the Prince of the Golden Isle would have to expose himself to the fury of his enemy.

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**Who acts:** this, magic stone, Rosalie · **What happens:** not prove, serve, save, have, expose, infuriate · **To what, where:** person, fury, enemy

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, magic stone, Rosalie), 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:pg640:16:63
# text = But this did not prove easy, for the magic stone would only serve for one person at a time, and in order to save Rosalie the Prince of the Golden Isle would have to expose himself to the fury of his enemy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **prove** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | would | the magic stone |  |  |  | time | for one person | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for person=Recipient |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | would | Rosalie |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **expose** | to-infinitive | Rosalie *not said here* | person | the fury of person's enemy |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fury=Recipient |
| 6 | **infuriate** |  |  | person's enemy |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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