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title: ‘It’s easily seen that you have heard nothing of this forest, that y… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It’s easily seen that you have heard nothing of this forest, that you rush so blindly to meet your doom. Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 65

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‘It’s easily seen that you have heard nothing of this forest, that you rush so blindly to meet your doom.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** see, hear, rush, meet, doom · **To what, where:** wood, nothing, doom

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg640:30:65
# text = ‘It’s easily seen that you have heard nothing of this forest, that you rush so blindly to meet your doom.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	blindly	blindly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | wood |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rush** | present | you |  |  |  |  | blindly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your doom |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **doom** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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 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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