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title: And Schurka growled, and was of opinion that he would like to tear e… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Schurka growled, and was of opinion that he would like to tear everyone in pieces; but Waska purred meditatively, and scratched the back of her ear with a velvet paw, and remained lost in thought. Who acts: Schurka, Waska. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, wit
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 147

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And Schurka growled, and was of opinion that he would like to tear everyone in pieces; but Waska purred meditatively, and scratched the back of her ear with a velvet paw, and remained lost in thought.

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**Who acts:** Schurka, Waska · **What happens:** growl, be, like, tear, purr, scratch · **To what, where:** opinion, everyone, pieces, back, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schurka, Waska), 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:pg640:33:147
# text = And Schurka growled, and was of opinion that he would like to tear everyone in pieces; but Waska purred meditatively, and scratched the back of her ear with a velvet paw, and remained lost in thought.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	growled	growl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	purred	purr	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	meditatively	meditatively	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | past | Schurka |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of opinion | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | would | Schurka | opinion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Schurka *not said here* | everyone |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location everyone=Theme |
| 5 | **purr** | past | Waska |  |  |  |  | meditatively *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scratch** | past | Waska *not said here* | the back of Waska's ear |  |  |  | with a velvet paw | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient with paw=Instrument |
| 7 | **remain** | past | Schurka *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **lose** | participle | Schurka *not said here* |  |  | thought |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |

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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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