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title: The giant felt nothing for a long time, but at last he woke up, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant felt nothing for a long time, but at last he woke up, and pinching his companion said: “What did you strike me for?” Who acts: giant, tailor, pinching, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 93

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The giant felt nothing for a long time, but at last he woke up, and pinching his companion said: “What did you strike me for?”

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**Who acts:** giant, tailor, pinching, you · **What happens:** feel, wake up, pinch, say, strike · **To what, where:** nothing, last, companion, pinching · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, tailor, pinching, you), 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:pg503:42:93
# text = The giant felt nothing for a long time, but at last he woke up, and pinching his companion said: “What did you strike me for?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the giant | nothing |  |  | time |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | tailor |  |  | last |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pinch** | gerund |  | tailor's companion |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | pinching |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **strike** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | pinching |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient i=Result |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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