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title: Heran sometimes facing forwards, sometimes backwards, stood sometime… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Heran sometimes facing forwards, sometimes backwards, stood sometimes on his head, and sometimes on his feet, and he dashed in pieces so many of the troll’s big glass windows and doors that it was something awful to see, and overturned everything he could, and made a fearful disturbance. Who acts: H
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 72

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Heran sometimes facing forwards, sometimes backwards, stood sometimes on his head, and sometimes on his feet, and he dashed in pieces so many of the troll’s big glass windows and doors that it was something awful to see, and overturned everything he could, and made a fearful disturbance.

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**Who acts:** Heran, youth, head · **What happens:** face, stand, dash, be, see, overturn · **To what, where:** forwards, head, many, pieces, something, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heran, youth, head), 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:pg5615:27:72
# text = Heran sometimes facing forwards, sometimes backwards, stood sometimes on his head, and sometimes on his feet, and he dashed in pieces so many of the troll’s big glass windows and doors that it was something awful to see, and overturned everything he could, and made a fearful disturbance.
1	Heran	Heran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
41	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
47	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	obj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund | Heran | forwards |  |  |  | backwards, sometimes *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent forward=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | Heran's head |  | on Heran's feet | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
| 3 | **dash** | past | youth | many of the troll's big glass windows and doors |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent many=Theme in piece=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | past | head | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **overturn** | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | past |  | a fearful disturbance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disturbance=Product |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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