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title: And the horrible elves are so ill-natured that if anyone sets one fo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the horrible elves are so ill-natured that if anyone sets one foot on their land he is instantly punished. Who acts: anyone, land. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 30

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And the horrible elves are so ill-natured that if anyone sets one foot on their land he is instantly punished.

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**Who acts:** anyone, land · **What happens:** nature, set, punish · **To what, where:** horrible elves, one foot, land, bade

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, land), 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:pg641:44:30
# text = And the horrible elves are so ill-natured that if anyone sets one foot on their land he is instantly punished.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	natured	nature	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nature** | present · passive |  | the horrible elves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | anyone | one foot |  | elves's land |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on land=Destination |
| 3 | **punish** | present · passive | elves's land *not said here* | bade |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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