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title: As Chin-debou Mau-giri leaned forward to seize him the hero flung hi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As Chin-debou Mau-giri leaned forward to seize him the hero flung his sack Woronowu over the giant's slippery head, and gripping his iron hammer, struck him again; this time the blow alighted upon the dry sack and Chin- debou Mau-giri fell dead. Who acts: Mau giri, hero, gripping. A sentence of «The
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 8

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As Chin-debou Mau-giri leaned forward to seize him the hero flung his sack Woronowu over the giant's slippery head, and gripping his iron hammer, struck him again; this time the blow alighted upon the dry sack and Chin- debou Mau-giri fell dead.

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**Who acts:** Mau giri, hero, gripping · **What happens:** learn, seize, fling, grip, strike, alight · **To what, where:** giri, sack, slippery head, iron hammer, time

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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 (Mau giri, hero, gripping), 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:pg3027:2:8
# text = As Chin-debou Mau-giri leaned forward to seize him the hero flung his sack Woronowu over the giant's slippery head, and gripping his iron hammer, struck him again; this time the blow alighted upon the dry sack and Chin- debou Mau-giri fell dead.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	debou	debou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Mau	Mau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	giri	giri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	Woronowu	Woronowu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	Chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	_
48	debou	debou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
49	Mau	Mau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	giri	giri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	list	_	_
52	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
53	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Mau giri |  |  |  |  | as Chin debou; forward *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive | Mau giri *not said here* | giri |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fling** | past | the hero | hero's sack |  | the giant's slippery head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over head=Destination |
| 4 | **grip** | gerund |  | giant's iron hammer |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 5 | **strike** | past | gripping | giri |  |  | again |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 6 | **alight** | participle · passive |  | this time |  |  |  | upon the dry sack and Chin debou | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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