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title: In those days there lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, a hu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days there lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, a huge giant, eighteen feet high and nine feet round; his fierce and savage looks were the terror of all who beheld him. Who acts: days, fierce looks, terror. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the G
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 2

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In those days there lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, a huge giant, eighteen feet high and nine feet round; his fierce and savage looks were the terror of all who beheld him.

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**Who acts:** days, fierce looks, terror · **What happens:** live, be, behold · **To what, where:** Mount, terror, Cornwall

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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 (days, fierce looks, terror), 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:pg503:54:2
# text = In those days there lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, a huge giant, eighteen feet high and nine feet round; his fierce and savage looks were the terror of all who beheld him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nmod	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | that days |  |  | Michael  St.'s Mount |  | off Cornwall | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mount=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Cornwall's fierce looks | the terror |  |  |  | of all | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | past | the terror | Cornwall |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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