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title: Very soon afterwards they came to the end of the wood, and the Troll… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon afterwards they came to the end of the wood, and the Troll with three heads came rushing up to them. Who acts: leaves, Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 41

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Very soon afterwards they came to the end of the wood, and the Troll with three heads came rushing up to them.

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**Who acts:** leaves, Troll · **What happens:** come, rush up · **To what, where:** end, leaves

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, Troll), 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:pg540:29:41
# text = Very soon afterwards they came to the end of the wood, and the Troll with three heads came rushing up to them.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  | to the end of the wood | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Troll with three heads |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush up** | gerund | the Troll with three heads *not said here* |  | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result |

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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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