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title: ‘The giant then called to the ring, where it was, and to my great su… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The giant then called to the ring, where it was, and to my great surprise it made him answer on my foot; and he, guided by the same, made a leap at me which I had the good luck to observe, and fortunately escaped the danger. Who acts: ring, fear, I, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 131

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‘The giant then called to the ring, where it was, and to my great surprise it made him answer on my foot; and he, guided by the same, made a leap at me which I had the good luck to observe, and fortunately escaped the danger.

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**Who acts:** ring, fear, I, my · **What happens:** call, make, answer, guide, have, observe · **To what, where:** giant, ring, fear, foot, leap, good luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, fear, I, my), 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:pg540:8:131
# text = ‘The giant then called to the ring, where it was, and to my great surprise it made him answer on my foot; and he, guided by the same, made a leap at me which I had the good luck to observe, and fortunately escaped the danger.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle · passive |  | the giant | the ring |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to ring=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past | ring | fear |  |  |  | to my great surprise | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | fear *not said here* |  |  | my foot |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **guide** | participle | fear |  |  |  |  | by the same | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by same=Destination |
| 5 | **make** | past |  | a leap |  |  |  | at me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leap=Product |
| 6 | **have** | past | I | the good luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **observe** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the good luck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **escape** | past |  | the danger |  |  |  | fortunately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **surprise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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