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title: Into that park there used to come a huge beast—Norka was its name—an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Into that park there used to come a huge beast—Norka was its name—and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night. Who acts: huge beast, Norka. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 4

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Into that park there used to come a huge beast—Norka was its name—and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.

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**Who acts:** huge beast, Norka · **What happens:** use, come, be, do, devour · **To what, where:** park, name, fearful mischief, some

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge beast, Norka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1364`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:13:4
# text = Into that park there used to come a huge beast—Norka was its name—and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Norka	Norka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | a huge beast |  |  | that park |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into park=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Norka | park's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | a huge beast *not said here* | fearful mischief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
| 5 | **devour** | gerund | a huge beast *not said here* | some |  |  | night |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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