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title: One came up roaring with open mouth to devour him, when he struck it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One came up roaring with open mouth to devour him, when he struck it with his wand, and laid it in an instant dead at his feet. Who acts: One, man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 53

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One came up roaring with open mouth to devour him, when he struck it with his wand, and laid it in an instant dead at his feet.

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**Who acts:** One, man · **What happens:** come up, roar, devour, strike, lay · **To what, where:** man, mouth, instant

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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:pg503:56:53
# text = One came up roaring with open mouth to devour him, when he struck it with his wand, and laid it in an instant dead at his feet.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roar** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with open mouth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **devour** | to-infinitive | One *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **strike** | past | man | mouth |  |  |  | with man's wand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with wand=Instrument |
| 5 | **lay** | past | One *not said here* | mouth |  | a instant |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in instant=Destination |

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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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