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title: ‘That may be,’ said the Bull, and rushed at the Troll, and gored out… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That may be,’ said the Bull, and rushed at the Troll, and gored out his eyes, and drove his horns right through him so that his entrails gushed out, but the Troll fought just as well as he did, and it was three whole days before the Bull got the life out of him. Who acts: entrails, Troll, horn, thr
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 62

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‘That may be,’ said the Bull, and rushed at the Troll, and gored out his eyes, and drove his horns right through him so that his entrails gushed out, but the Troll fought just as well as he did, and it was three whole days before the Bull got the life out of him.

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**Who acts:** entrails, Troll, horn, three whole days · **What happens:** be, say, rush, gore out, drive, gush out · **To what, where:** Bull, Troll, eyes, horns, three whole days, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (entrails, Troll, horn, three whole days), 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:pg540:29:62
# text = ‘That may be,’ said the Bull, and rushed at the Troll, and gored out his eyes, and drove his horns right through him so that his entrails gushed out, but the Troll fought just as well as he did, and it was three whole days before the Bull got the life out of him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	ccomp	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gored	gore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	entrails	entrail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	just	just	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	40	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
52	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
54	before	before	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	out	out	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | may |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Bull |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | participle |  |  |  | the Troll |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at troll=Trajectory |
| 4 | **gore out** | participle |  | Troll's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | past |  | Troll's horns |  |  |  | through Troll | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme horn=Trajectory |
| 6 | **gush out** | participle | Troll's entrails |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fight** | past | the Troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** | past | Troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | past | horn | three whole days |  |  | before the Bull |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **get** | past | three whole days | the life |  |  |  | out Troll | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |

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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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