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title: It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things. Who acts: conjurors, spectators. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 13

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It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things.

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**Who acts:** conjurors, spectators · **What happens:** suggest, hypnotise, make, believe, see · **To what, where:** tiger, spectators, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conjurors, spectators), 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:pg7885:50:13
# text = It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conjurors	conjuror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · perfect · passive |  | tiger |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **hypnotise** | present | the conjurors | the spectators |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the conjurors *not said here* | spectators *= spectator* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | infinitive | spectators *= spectator* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present | conjurors *= conjuror* | this things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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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