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title: Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on his invisible coat, ap… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on his invisible coat, approached and aimed a blow at the giant’s head, but, missing his aim, he only cut off his nose. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 56

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Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on his invisible coat, approached and aimed a blow at the giant’s head, but, missing his aim, he only cut off his nose.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** alight, put, approach, aim, miss, cut off · **To what, where:** invisible coat, blow, head, aim, nose

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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:pg503:54:56
# text = Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on his invisible coat, approached and aimed a blow at the giant’s head, but, missing his aim, he only cut off his nose.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alight** | participle | Jack |  |  |  |  | from Jack's horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  | Jack's invisible coat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination |
| 3 | **approach** | participle |  | Jack's invisible coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **aim** | participle |  | a blow |  | the giant's head |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme |
| 5 | **miss** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | Jack's aim |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cut off** | past | Jack | Jack's nose |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality |
| 7 | **aim** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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