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title: Alonzo, for such was his name, sprang forward, and with one blow of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Alonzo, for such was his name, sprang forward, and with one blow of his fist stretched the creature dead upon the road. Who acts: Alonzo, fist. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 52

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Alonzo, for such was his name, sprang forward, and with one blow of his fist stretched the creature dead upon the road.

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**Who acts:** Alonzo, fist · **What happens:** be, spring, stretch, blow

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, fist), 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:pg3282:10:52
# text = Alonzo, for such was his name, sprang forward, and with one blow of his fist stretched the creature dead upon the road.
1	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Alonzo's such name | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | past | Alonzo |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | Alonzo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one blow of Alonzo's fist; upon the road; dead *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blow=Instrument |
| 4 | **blow** |  | Alonzo's fist |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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