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title: So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get into the parlour, and managed to get the door open half-way. Who acts: Giant, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 30

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So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get into the parlour, and managed to get the door open half-way.

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**Who acts:** Giant, Prince · **What happens:** go, try, get, manage · **To what, where:** forest, parlour, door

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, Prince), 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:pg640:42:30
# text = So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get into the parlour, and managed to get the door open half-way.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the Giant |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **try** | past | Prince |  |  |  | day |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the parlour |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into parlour=Destination |
| 4 | **manage** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | open half way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |

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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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