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title: But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him, and the youths fo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him, and the youths fought well, and pressed him harder than before. Who acts: youths. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 21

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But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him, and the youths fought well, and pressed him harder than before.

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**Who acts:** youths · **What happens:** try, fight, press · **To what, where:** fight

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths), 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:pg3454:32:21
# text = But the fight with the giant had sorely tried him, and the youths fought well, and pressed him harder than before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fight with the giant |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 2 | **fight** | past | the youths |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **press** | past | the youths *not said here* | fight |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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