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description: To push the body aside as it fell was quite easy for Niels, so strong had the wine made him, and the second giant as he entered met the same reception. Who acts: strong, body, wine, Niels. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tre
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57

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To push the body aside as it fell was quite easy for Niels, so strong had the wine made him, and the second giant as he entered met the same reception.

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**Who acts:** strong, body, wine, Niels · **What happens:** push, fall, be, have, make, enter · **To what, where:** body, Niels, same reception

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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 (strong, body, wine, Niels), 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:pg2435:30:57
# text = To push the body aside as it fell was quite easy for Niels, so strong had the wine made him, and the second giant as he entered met the same reception.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | to-infinitive | strong *not said here* | the body |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | body |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Niels; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | strong |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | the wine | Niels |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
| 6 | **enter** | past | Niels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **meet** | past | Niels *not said here* | the same reception |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reception=Co-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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