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title: Bang! went Niels’ gun, and the bullet struck the handle of the fork… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bang! went Niels’ gun, and the bullet struck the handle of the fork so hard that the point went into the giant’s chin, instead of his mouth. Who acts: gun, bullet, point. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 2

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Bang! went Niels’ gun, and the bullet struck the handle of the fork so hard that the point went into the giant’s chin, instead of his mouth.

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**Who acts:** gun, bullet, point · **What happens:** go, strike · **To what, where:** handle, chin

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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 (gun, bullet, point), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:2626`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:30:2
# text = Bang! went Niels’ gun, and the bullet struck the handle of the fork so hard that the point went into the giant’s chin, instead of his mouth.
1	Bang	bang	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Niels's gun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | the bullet | the handle of the fork |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past | the point |  |  | the giant's chin |  | instead point's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chin=Initial\_Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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