--- title: So at it they went, Tom laying such huge blows at the giant, down wh… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So at it they went, Tom laying such huge blows at the giant, down whose face sweat and blood ran together, so that, being fat and foggy and tired with the long fighting, he asked Tom would he let him drink a little? " Who acts: beer, Tom, face sweat, blow. 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" **Who acts:** beer, Tom, face sweat, blow · **What happens:** go, lay, run, be, ask, let · **To what, where:** such huge blows, blow, little · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beer, Tom, face sweat, blow), 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:pg14241:19:76 # text = So at it they went, Tom laying such huge blows at the giant, down whose face sweat and blood ran together, so that, being fat and foggy and tired with the long fighting, he asked Tom would he let him drink a little? " 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 at at SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 sweat sweat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 29 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 foggy foggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | beer | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | gerund | Tom | such huge blows | | | | at the giant | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blow=Theme at giant=Destination | | 3 | **run** | past | face sweat and blood | | | | | down, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | fat *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | | | | | | with the long fighting | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Tom | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **let** | would | Tom | blow | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **drink** | infinitive | blow *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/77/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/)