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title: He should also think always of Hadvor, which would cause him all the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He should also think always of Hadvor, which would cause him all the more sorrow, and from this spell he should never be freed until Hadvor burned the lion’s skin, and that would not happen very soon. Who acts: lion, spell, Hadvor, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod a
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 24

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He should also think always of Hadvor, which would cause him all the more sorrow, and from this spell he should never be freed until Hadvor burned the lion’s skin, and that would not happen very soon.

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**Who acts:** lion, spell, Hadvor, that · **What happens:** think, cause, not free, burn, not happen · **To what, where:** lion, skin, spell

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, spell, Hadvor, that), 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:pg640:49:24
# text = He should also think always of Hadvor, which would cause him all the more sorrow, and from this spell he should never be freed until Hadvor burned the lion’s skin, and that would not happen very soon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | should | lion |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | would |  | lion |  |  |  | all more sorrow *obl* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **free** | should · passive | this spell *not said here* | lion |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **burn** | past | Hadvor | the lion's skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **happen** | would | that |  |  | this spell |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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