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title: So they rushed on each other and fought, and as for the Bull he butt… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they rushed on each other and fought, and as for the Bull he butted and kicked with all the strength of his body, but the Troll fought quite as well as he did, and the whole day went by before the Bull put an end to him, and then he himself was so full of wounds and so worn out that he was scarce
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 46

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So they rushed on each other and fought, and as for the Bull he butted and kicked with all the strength of his body, but the Troll fought quite as well as he did, and the whole day went by before the Bull put an end to him, and then he himself was so full of wounds and so worn out that he was scarcely able to move.

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**Who acts:** woods, bull, Troll, whole day · **What happens:** rush, fight, butt, kick, do, go · **To what, where:** each, end, Troll

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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 (woods, bull, Troll, whole day), 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:pg540:29:46
# text = So they rushed on each other and fought, and as for the Bull he butted and kicked with all the strength of his body, but the Troll fought quite as well as he did, and the whole day went by before the Bull put an end to him, and then he himself was so full of wounds and so worn out that he was scarcely able to move.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	butted	butt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
54	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	55	nmod:unmarked	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	so	so	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	so	so	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	conj	_	_
65	out	out	ADP	RP	_	64	compound:prt	_	_
66	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
68	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	70	cop	_	_
69	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
70	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	advcl	_	_
71	to	to	PART	TO	_	72	mark	_	_
72	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | woods *= wood* |  |  | each |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on each=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fight** | past | woods *= wood* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **butt** | past | bull |  |  |  |  | as the Bull | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **kick** | past | bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all strength of bull's body | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with strength=Instrument |
| 5 | **fight** | past | the Troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | past | bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | past | the whole day |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **put** | past | the Bull | a end | Troll |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 9 | **is** | past | bull |  |  |  | then | of wounds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **wear out** | participle | bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | past | bull |  |  |  |  | able, scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **move** | to-infinitive | bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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