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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 67

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They danced and played different games till midnight; then one of the Giants tore up a plant by its roots, and all the Giants and Giantesses made themselves so thin that they disappeared into the earth through the hole made by the uprooting of the plant.

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**Who acts:** hundreds, one Giants, Giants · **What happens:** dance, play, tore up, make, disappear · **To what, where:** different games, plant, hundreds, earth, hole

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds, one Giants, Giants), 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:pg640:15:67
# text = They danced and played different games till midnight; then one of the Giants tore up a plant by its roots, and all the Giants and Giantesses made themselves so thin that they disappeared into the earth through the hole made by the uprooting of the plant.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Giantesses	giantess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	uprooting	uprooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | hundreds *= hundred* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past | hundreds *= hundred* *not said here* | different games |  |  | midnight |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **tore up** | past | the one Giants | a plant |  |  |  | by plant's roots | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | all Giants | hundreds *= hundred* |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product |
| 5 | **disappear** | past | hundreds *= hundred* |  |  | the earth through the hole |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  | the hole *not said here* |  |  |  | by the uprooting of the plant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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