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title: "At him, Truncheon," said the giant; "at the little wretch that I've… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "At him, Truncheon," said the giant; "at the little wretch that I've fed these seven years, and now has blinded me." A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 12

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"At him, Truncheon," said the giant; "at the little wretch that I've fed these seven years, and now has blinded me."

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**What happens:** say, feed, blind · **To what, where:** giant, little wretch, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg14241:23:12
# text = "At him, Truncheon," said the giant; "at the little wretch that I've fed these seven years, and now has blinded me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Truncheon	Truncheon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 2 | **feed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the little wretch |  |  | year |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **blind** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | me |  |  | now |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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