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title: And soon he heard it coming, roaring and raging from afar off, and a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And soon he heard it coming, roaring and raging from afar off, and at last it came near, spitting fire, and with a tongue like a great spear, and you could hear it roaring for miles, and it was making for the place where the king's daughter was staked down. Who acts: lad, good, last, you. A sentence
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 104

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And soon he heard it coming, roaring and raging from afar off, and at last it came near, spitting fire, and with a tongue like a great spear, and you could hear it roaring for miles, and it was making for the place where the king's daughter was staked down.

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**Who acts:** lad, good, last, you · **What happens:** hear, come, roar, rage off, spit, make · **To what, where:** good, afar, fire, daughter

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, good, last, you), 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:pg14241:30:104
# text = And soon he heard it coming, roaring and raging from afar off, and at last it came near, spitting fire, and with a tongue like a great spear, and you could hear it roaring for miles, and it was making for the place where the king's daughter was staked down.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	near	near	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	spitting	spit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	staked	stake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
57	down	down	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | lad | good |  |  |  | with a tongue like a great spear; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rage off** | gerund | good *not said here* |  |  | afar |  | off *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | last |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spit** | gerund | last *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 7 | **hear** | could | you | good |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **roar** | gerund | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for miles | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for mile=Recipient |
| 9 | **make** | past · progressive | good |  |  |  |  | for the place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for place=Asset |
| 10 | **stake down** | past · passive |  | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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