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title: He was greater than ever now, for all the giant's strength had gone… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was greater than ever now, for all the giant's strength had gone into him; and he resumed his journey, carrying his burden with as little difficulty as an eagle might carry a hare. Who acts: Makoma, strength, eagle. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its d
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 63

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He was greater than ever now, for all the giant's strength had gone into him; and he resumed his journey, carrying his burden with as little difficulty as an eagle might carry a hare.

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**Who acts:** Makoma, strength, eagle · **What happens:** be, go, resume, carry, journey, burden · **To what, where:** journey, burden, hare

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, strength, eagle), 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:pg3027:1:63
# text = He was greater than ever now, for all the giant's strength had gone into him; and he resumed his journey, carrying his burden with as little difficulty as an eagle might carry a hare.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Makoma |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | all giant's strength |  |  |  |  | into Makoma | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **resume** | past | Makoma | Makoma's journey |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | Makoma *not said here* | Makoma's burden |  |  |  | with little difficulty | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | might | a eagle | a hare |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** |  | Makoma |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **burden** |  | Makoma |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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