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title: I know that they will cry out, “Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in on… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I know that they will cry out, “Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon.”’ Who acts: I, Woe, Stan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 182

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I know that they will cry out, “Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon.”’

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**Who acts:** I, Woe, Stan · **What happens:** know, cry out, look, grow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Woe, Stan), 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:pg641:13:182
# text = I know that they will cry out, “Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon.”’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Bolovan	Bolovan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | future | Woe |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Woe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Stan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stan=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Stan |  |  |  | year | weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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