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title: He got on his legs, and walked quietly by all those giants, lions, f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He got on his legs, and walked quietly by all those giants, lions, fiery serpents, and all manner of other frightful things too numerous to mention, while they were fast asleep, and that only for the space of one hour, when into the castle he goes neck or nothing. Who acts: boy, swans, space. A sent
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 24

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He got on his legs, and walked quietly by all those giants, lions, fiery serpents, and all manner of other frightful things too numerous to mention, while they were fast asleep, and that only for the space of one hour, when into the castle he goes neck or nothing.

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**Who acts:** boy, swans, space · **What happens:** get, walk, mention, be, go · **To what, where:** legs, neck, castle · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, swans, space), 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:pg14241:27:24
# text = He got on his legs, and walked quietly by all those giants, lions, fiery serpents, and all manner of other frightful things too numerous to mention, while they were fast asleep, and that only for the space of one hour, when into the castle he goes neck or nothing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	53	mark	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | boy |  |  | boy's legs |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source |
| 2 | **walk** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by all giants and lions; quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by giant=Trajectory |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | swans *= swan* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | the space of one hour | neck |  | the castle |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=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:** «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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