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title: That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, sha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, shall tend him no more. Who acts: bloodthirsty monster. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 171

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That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, shall tend him no more.

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**Who acts:** bloodthirsty monster · **What happens:** tend · **To what, where:** eye

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bloodthirsty monster), 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:pg540:14:171
# text = That bloodthirsty monster, That man-eater grim, Shall nurse him, shall tend him no more.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	bloodthirsty	bloodthirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Shall	Shall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | shall | that bloodthirsty monster | eye |  |  |  |  | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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