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title: _--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish _Drolls_. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish _Drolls_. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 7

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\_--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish \_Drolls\_.

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**What happens:** be, droll · **To what, where:** similar adventures, Cornish \_

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. 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:pg14241:43:7
# text = _--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish _Drolls_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Hunt	Hunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Drolls	droll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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** | present |  | similar adventures |  |  |  | of giants | tree rules |
| 2 | **droll** | present |  |  |  | Hunt's Cornish \_ |  |  | 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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