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title: And when the great beast beheld the hard blows which the giant dealt… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the great beast beheld the hard blows which the giant dealt his master he flew at his throat, and much trouble had the monster in beating him off. Who acts: great beast, giant, much trouble. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its depende
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 4

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And when the great beast beheld the hard blows which the giant dealt his master he flew at his throat, and much trouble had the monster in beating him off.

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**Who acts:** great beast, giant, much trouble · **What happens:** behold, deal, fly, have, beat off · **To what, where:** hard blows, master, throat, monster, giant

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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 (great beast, giant, much trouble), 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:pg3454:32:4
# text = And when the great beast beheld the hard blows which the giant dealt his master he flew at his throat, and much trouble had the monster in beating him off.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | the great beast | the hard blows |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deal** | past | the giant | the hard blows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient master=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | giant | giant's master *not said here* |  | giant's throat |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent master=Theme at throat=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | much trouble | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient |
| 5 | **beat off** | gerund | much trouble *not said here* | giant |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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 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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