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title: When he came up to the giant he made several strokes at him, but cou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came up to the giant he made several strokes at him, but could not reach his body, but wounded his thighs in several places; and at length, putting both hands to his sword and aiming with all his might, he cut off both his legs. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 51

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When he came up to the giant he made several strokes at him, but could not reach his body, but wounded his thighs in several places; and at length, putting both hands to his sword and aiming with all his might, he cut off both his legs.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** come up, make, not reach, wound, put, aim · **To what, where:** several strokes, body, thighs, several places, hands, legs

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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:pg503:54:51
# text = When he came up to the giant he made several strokes at him, but could not reach his body, but wounded his thighs in several places; and at length, putting both hands to his sword and aiming with all his might, he cut off both his legs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	thighs	thigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
35	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	aiming	aim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
42	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	both	both	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | to the giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to giant=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | Jack | several strokes |  |  |  | at Scarcely | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Product |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | could | Jack *not said here* | Jack's body |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 4 | **wound** | past | Jack *not said here* | Jack's thighs |  | several places |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thigh=Experiencer |
| 5 | **put** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | both hands |  |  |  | to Jack's sword | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 6 | **aim** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **cut off** | past | Jack | Jack's legs |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality |

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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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