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title: By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the thr… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out: Who acts: Giant, face. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 4

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By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out:

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**Who acts:** Giant, face · **What happens:** come, cross, roar out · **To what, where:** threshold

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, face), 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:pg540:19:4
# text = By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out:
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Giant |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | past · perfect | face | the threshold |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient |
| 3 | **roar out** | past | face |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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