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title: In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a boy of a bold temper, and took delight in hearing or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies; and used to listen eagerly to the deeds of the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table. Who acts: Jack. A sentence o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 1

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In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a boy of a bold temper, and took delight in hearing or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies; and used to listen eagerly to the deeds of the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** live, name, be, take, use, listen · **To what, where:** lad, reign, boy, delight, hearing, conjurers

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg503:54:1
# text = In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a boy of a bold temper, and took delight in hearing or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies; and used to listen eagerly to the deeds of the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	conjurers	conjurer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
54	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a lad |  | the reign of the famous King Arthur; there |  | in Cornwall | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lad=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Jack | a boy |  |  |  | of a bold temper | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | delight |  | hearing or reading of conjurers and giants |  | fairies *obl* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in hearing=Location |
| 5 | **use** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the deeds of the knights of Round Table; eagerly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deed=Theme |
| 7 | **read** |  |  | conjurers and giants |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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