--- title: Next night the lad was at the house again, and now a second giant ca… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next night the lad was at the house again, and now a second giant came in at the door, and as he came in the lad cut him in twain, but the legs walked on to the chimney and went up them. " Who acts: Next night, second giant, giant, legs. 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" **Who acts:** Next night, second giant, giant, legs · **What happens:** be, come in, come, cut, walk, go up · **To what, where:** house, door, lad, giant, twain, chimney This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (Next night, second giant, giant, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:16:13 # text = Next night the lad was at the house again, and now a second giant came in at the door, and as he came in the lad cut him in twain, but the legs walked on to the chimney and went up them. " 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 twain twain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Next night | | | the house | again | | tree rules | | 2 | **come in** | past | a second giant | | | the door | now | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | | 3 | **come** | past | giant | | | the lad | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lad=Location | | 4 | **cut** | past | | giant | | twain | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 5 | **walk** | past | the legs | | | the chimney | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Trajectory | | 6 | **go up** | past | | legs *= leg* | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/14/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)