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title: When he saw the monster had got out he gave himself up for lost, but… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw the monster had got out he gave himself up for lost, but his fear was soon changed into joy, for the kind monster threw itself upon the tiger and very soon killed it, and then came and crouched at the feet of the man it had saved. Who acts: Darling, monster, man. A sentence of «The Blue 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 120

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When he saw the monster had got out he gave himself up for lost, but his fear was soon changed into joy, for the kind monster threw itself upon the tiger and very soon killed it, and then came and crouched at the feet of the man it had saved.

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**Who acts:** Darling, monster, man · **What happens:** see, get out, give up, lose, change, throw · **To what, where:** Darling, fear, joy, feet, tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, monster, man), 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:pg503:39:120
# text = When he saw the monster had got out he gave himself up for lost, but his fear was soon changed into joy, for the kind monster threw itself upon the tiger and very soon killed it, and then came and crouched at the feet of the man it had saved.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Darling |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get out** | past · perfect | the monster |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give up** | past | Darling | Darling |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source |
| 4 | **lose** | participle | Darling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **change** | past · passive |  | Darling's fear |  |  |  | into joy *result*; soon *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into joy=Result |
| 6 | **throw** | past |  | joy |  |  |  | for the kind monster; upon the tiger | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme upon tiger=Destination |
| 7 | **kill** | past |  | joy |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **crouch** | past |  |  |  | the feet of the man |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 10 | **save** | past · perfect · passive | the man *not said here* | tiger |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 11 | **fear** |  | Darling |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «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 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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