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title: The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook. Who acts: Magician, whole underworld. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 76

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The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook.

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**Who acts:** Magician, whole underworld · **What happens:** stamp, glare, curse, shake · **To what, where:** green eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, whole underworld), 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:pg7277:27:76
# text = The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	underworld	underworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | the Magician |  |  |  |  | with magician's feet; loudly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme |
| 2 | **glare** | past |  |  |  | magician's green eyes |  | frightfully *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location |
| 3 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shake** | past | the whole underworld |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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