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title: And in a moment such a fierce creature stood before them, that all t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in a moment such a fierce creature stood before them, that all the guests rushed out of the hall, treading each other underfoot in their fright. Who acts: fierce creature, guests. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 31

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And in a moment such a fierce creature stood before them, that all the guests rushed out of the hall, treading each other underfoot in their fright.

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**Who acts:** fierce creature, guests · **What happens:** stand, rush out, tread, fright · **To what, where:** hall, other underfoot, fright

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce creature, guests), 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:pg3282:19:31
# text = And in a moment such a fierce creature stood before them, that all the guests rushed out of the hall, treading each other underfoot in their fright.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	underfoot	underfoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | such fierce creature |  |  |  | before people; moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location |
| 2 | **rush out** | past | all guests | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tread** | gerund | all guests *not said here* | each other underfoot |  | guests's fright |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location underfoot=Theme |
| 4 | **fright** |  | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling 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 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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