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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 80

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The giant, plucking up a monster bao-bab by the roots, struck heavily at Makoma; but the hero sprang aside, and as the weapon sank deep into the soft earth, whirled Nu-endo the hammer round his head and felled the giant with one blow.

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**Who acts:** hero, weapon · **What happens:** pluck up, strike, spring, sink, whirl, fell · **To what, where:** bao bab, roots, soft earth, Nu endo, giant

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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 (hero, weapon), 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:pg3027:1:80
# text = The giant, plucking up a monster bao-bab by the roots, struck heavily at Makoma; but the hero sprang aside, and as the weapon sank deep into the soft earth, whirled Nu-endo the hammer round his head and felled the giant with one blow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bao	bao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bab	bab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	Nu	Nu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	endo	endo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
43	round	round	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	felled	fell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obj	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck up** | gerund | the hero *not said here* | a bao bab |  |  |  | by the roots | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bab=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | participle |  | the roots *not said here* |  |  |  | at Makoma; heavily *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at makoma=Patient |
| 3 | **spring** | past | the hero |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sink** | past | the weapon |  |  | the soft earth |  | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **whirl** | past | the weapon *not said here* | Nu endo |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent endo=Theme hammer=Result |
| 6 | **fell** | past | the weapon *not said here* | the giant |  |  |  | with one blow | tree rules |

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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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