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title: Makoma was astonished when he beheld how tall was the giant; but, no… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Makoma was astonished when he beheld how tall was the giant; but, nothing daunted, he went forward until he reached one of Sakatirina's legs, which he struck heavily with Nu-endo. Who acts: Makoma, nothing, legs. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its depende
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 20

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Makoma was astonished when he beheld how tall was the giant; but, nothing daunted, he went forward until he reached one of Sakatirina's legs, which he struck heavily with Nu-endo.

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**Who acts:** Makoma, nothing, legs · **What happens:** be, behold, daunt, go, reach, strike · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, nothing, legs), 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:pg3027:2:20
# text = Makoma was astonished when he beheld how tall was the giant; but, nothing daunted, he went forward until he reached one of Sakatirina's legs, which he struck heavily with Nu-endo.
1	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
16	daunted	daunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Nu	Nu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	endo	endo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | past | Makoma |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Makoma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **daunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **reach** | past | Makoma | one of Sakatirina's legs |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **strike** | past | Sakatirina's legs |  |  |  |  | with Nu endo; heavily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with endo=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 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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