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title: Soon after the giant went to fetch his brother who was likewise a gi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after the giant went to fetch his brother who was likewise a giant, to take a meal off his flesh; and Jack saw with terror through the bars of his prison the two giants approaching. Who acts: giant, brother, Jack, two giants. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Ja
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 14

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Soon after the giant went to fetch his brother who was likewise a giant, to take a meal off his flesh; and Jack saw with terror through the bars of his prison the two giants approaching.

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**Who acts:** giant, brother, Jack, two giants · **What happens:** go, fetch, be, take, see, approach · **To what, where:** brother, meal, flesh, bars, prison

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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, brother, Jack, two giants), 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:pg503:54:14
# text = Soon after the giant went to fetch his brother who was likewise a giant, to take a meal off his flesh; and Jack saw with terror through the bars of his prison the two giants approaching.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* | Jack's brother |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jack's brother |  |  |  |  | giant, likewise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* | a meal |  | Jack's flesh |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent meal=Theme off flesh=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **see** | past | Jack |  |  | the bars of Jack's prison |  | with terror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **approach** | gerund | the two giants | Jack's prison *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=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:** «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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