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title: The first giant accordingly bent down and entered in a stooping post… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first giant accordingly bent down and entered in a stooping posture, but before he had time to straighten his back again Niels made a sweep with the sword, and oft went the giant’s head. Who acts: Niels, oft. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 56

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The first giant accordingly bent down and entered in a stooping posture, but before he had time to straighten his back again Niels made a sweep with the sword, and oft went the giant’s head.

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**Who acts:** Niels, oft · **What happens:** bend down, enter, stoop, have, straighten, make · **To what, where:** first giant, stooping posture, back, sweep, head

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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 (Niels, oft), 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:pg2435:30:56
# text = The first giant accordingly bent down and entered in a stooping posture, but before he had time to straighten his back again Niels made a sweep with the sword, and oft went the giant’s head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	posture	posture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nsubj	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend down** | participle · passive |  | the first giant |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 2 | **enter** | past |  |  |  | a stooping posture |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stoop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Niels |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **straighten** | to-infinitive | Niels *not said here* | Niels's back |  |  | again |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past | Niels | a sweep |  |  |  | with the sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Product |
| 7 | **go** | past | oft | the giant's head |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |

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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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