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title: But one day a great wind arose, and flung down the Big Lion’s half-d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day a great wind arose, and flung down the Big Lion’s half-dried skin from the roof of the hut. Who acts: great wind. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 11

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But one day a great wind arose, and flung down the Big Lion’s half-dried skin from the roof of the hut.

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**Who acts:** great wind · **What happens:** arise, fling, dry · **To what, where:** roof

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wind), 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:pg5615:36:11
# text = But one day a great wind arose, and flung down the Big Lion’s half-dried skin from the roof of the hut.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a great wind |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fling** | participle | a great wind *not said here* |  |  | the roof of the hut |  | down the Big Lion's dried skin | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from roof=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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