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description: And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.’ Who acts: you, I, daughter, kingdom. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its depen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 33

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And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, daughter, kingdom · **What happens:** say, foretell, come, pass, not come, fall · **To what, where:** daughter, everything, ruin, one stone, another · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, daughter, kingdom), 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:pg640:8:33
# text = And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	foretell	foretell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | daughter |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **foretell** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | daughter | everything |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | shall | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | into ruin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ruin=Result |
| 7 | **leave** | shall · passive |  | one stone |  | another |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon another=Location |

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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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