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title: My! they were big ones, with huge heads and long tusks for teeth. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My! they were big ones, with huge heads and long tusks for teeth. Who acts: woods. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 121

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My! they were big ones, with huge heads and long tusks for teeth.

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**Who acts:** woods · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big ones

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:646`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:21:121
# text = My! they were big ones, with huge heads and long tusks for teeth.
1	My	my	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | woods *= wood* | big ones |  |  |  | with huge heads and long tusks for teeth | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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