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title: The giant, about midnight, entered the apartment, and with his bludg… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant, about midnight, entered the apartment, and with his bludgeon struck many blows on the bed, in the very place where Jack had laid the log; and then he went back to his own room, thinking he had broken all Jack’s bones. Who acts: giant midnight, Jack, club. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Boo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 34

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The giant, about midnight, entered the apartment, and with his bludgeon struck many blows on the bed, in the very place where Jack had laid the log; and then he went back to his own room, thinking he had broken all Jack’s bones.

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**Who acts:** giant midnight, Jack, club · **What happens:** enter, strike, lay, go back, think, break · **To what, where:** apartment, many blows, log, bones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 midnight, Jack, club), 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:pg503:54:34
# text = The giant, about midnight, entered the apartment, and with his bludgeon struck many blows on the bed, in the very place where Jack had laid the log; and then he went back to his own room, thinking he had broken all Jack’s bones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bludgeon	bludgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	ccomp	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the giant midnight | the apartment |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apartment=Destination |
| 2 | **strike** | past | the giant midnight *not said here* | many blows |  |  |  | with club's bludgeon; in the place; on the bed | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on bed=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | past · perfect | Jack | the log |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Result |
| 4 | **go back** | past | club |  |  |  | then | to club's own room *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | club *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | past · perfect | club | all Jack's bones |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=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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