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title: Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came across, and especially enjoyed a chance of catching and eating any young girls. Who acts: Locrinos, cruel monster, catching. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 68

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Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came across, and especially enjoyed a chance of catching and eating any young girls.

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**Who acts:** Locrinos, cruel monster, catching · **What happens:** be, devour, come, enjoy, eat, chance · **To what, where:** cruel monster, everyone, chance, young girls

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Locrinos, cruel monster, catching), 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:pg640:23:68
# text = Now this Locrinos was a cruel monster who devoured everyone he came across, and especially enjoyed a chance of catching and eating any young girls.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Locrinos	Locrinos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	across	across	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	catching	catching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this Locrinos | a cruel monster |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **devour** | past | a cruel monster | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | Locrinos |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | this Locrinos *not said here* | a chance of catching |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | this Locrinos *not said here* | any young girls |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 6 | **chance** |  | catching |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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 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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