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title: At that same moment the Troll came, breathing hard, and he was ever… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At that same moment the Troll came, breathing hard, and he was ever so much bigger and stouter than either of the others, and he too was forced to go sideways to get in through the door. Who acts: Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 67

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At that same moment the Troll came, breathing hard, and he was ever so much bigger and stouter than either of the others, and he too was forced to go sideways to get in through the door.

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**Who acts:** Troll · **What happens:** come, breathe, be, force, go, get in · **To what, where:** Troll, door

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:6:67
# text = At that same moment the Troll came, breathing hard, and he was ever so much bigger and stouter than either of the others, and he too was forced to go sideways to get in through the door.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stouter	stout	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Troll |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund | the Troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Troll |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than either | tree rules |
| 5 | **force** | past · passive |  | Troll |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | Troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get in** | to-infinitive | Troll *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination |

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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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