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title: So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwield… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwieldy to spring out of the window. Who acts: beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 122

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So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwieldy to spring out of the window.

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**Who acts:** beast · **What happens:** rage, catch, be, spring out · **To what, where:** raging beast, window

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast), 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:pg503:42:122
# text = So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwieldy to spring out of the window.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
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	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the raging beast |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | beast |  |  |  |  | far, heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spring out** | to-infinitive | beast *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location window=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 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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