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title: This giant was even more furious than the first had been, and words… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This giant was even more furious than the first had been, and words were just coming to blows, when the third giant again interposed. Who acts: giant, first, words. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11

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This giant was even more furious than the first had been, and words were just coming to blows, when the third giant again interposed.

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**Who acts:** giant, first, words · **What happens:** be, come, interpose · **To what, where:** blows

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, first, words), 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:pg2435:30:11
# text = This giant was even more furious than the first had been, and words were just coming to blows, when the third giant again interposed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	interposed	interpose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this giant |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past · perfect | the first |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | words |  |  | blows |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **be** |  | this giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **interpose** *speech: other* | participle | this giant *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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