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title: But very soon he arrived at the palace with the giant’s head, of whi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But very soon he arrived at the palace with the giant’s head, of which she was still terrified, though it could no longer do her any harm. Who acts: creature, Charming, giant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 139

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But very soon he arrived at the palace with the giant’s head, of which she was still terrified, though it could no longer do her any harm.

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**Who acts:** creature, Charming, giant · **What happens:** arrive, be, do · **To what, where:** palace, harm, Charming

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, Charming, giant), 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:pg503:28:139
# text = But very soon he arrived at the palace with the giant’s head, of which she was still terrified, though it could no longer do her any harm.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | creature |  |  | the palace with the giant's head |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Charming |  |  |  | still | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | could | giant | any harm | Charming |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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