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title: When the Law will come, it will do away with the Druid's magic spell… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Law will come, it will do away with the Druid's magic spells that come from the lips of the false black demon." Who acts: Law, magic spells, Druid. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 33

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When the Law will come, it will do away with the Druid's magic spells that come from the lips of the false black demon."

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**Who acts:** Law, magic spells, Druid · **What happens:** come, do away, spell · **To what, where:** lips

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Law, magic spells, Druid), 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:pg7885:4:33
# text = When the Law will come, it will do away with the Druid's magic spells that come from the lips of the false black demon."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | the Law |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do away** | future | Law |  |  |  |  | with the Druid's magic spells; away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present | the Druid's magic spells |  |  | the lips of the false black demon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **spell** |  | the Druid |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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