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title: This giant kept an enchanted castle in the midst of a lonely wood; a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This giant kept an enchanted castle in the midst of a lonely wood; and some time after the death of Cormoran Jack was passing through a wood, and being weary, sat down and went to sleep. Who acts: giant, time, Cormoran. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Gian
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 12

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This giant kept an enchanted castle in the midst of a lonely wood; and some time after the death of Cormoran Jack was passing through a wood, and being weary, sat down and went to sleep.

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**Who acts:** giant, time, Cormoran · **What happens:** keep, enchant, pass, be, sit down, go · **To what, where:** enchanted castle, midst, wood, sleep

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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 (giant, time, Cormoran), 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:pg503:54:12
# text = This giant kept an enchanted castle in the midst of a lonely wood; and some time after the death of Cormoran Jack was passing through a wood, and being weary, sat down and went to sleep.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | this giant | a enchanted castle |  | the midst of a lonely wood |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pass** | past · progressive | some time after the death of Cormoran |  |  | a wood |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | some time after the death of Cormoran *not said here* |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | past |  |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **die** |  | Cormoran |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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