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title: For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour everything it could come across. Who acts: monster, everything. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 18

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For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour everything it could come across.

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**Who acts:** monster, everything · **What happens:** drive out, use, devour, come · **To what, where:** monster, cave

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster, everything), 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:pg7439:39:18
# text = For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour everything it could come across.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	across	across	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive out** | past |  | the monster |  | monster's cave |  | for hunger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent monster=Theme from cave=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** | past | monster |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **devour** | to-infinitive | monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | could | everything |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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