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title: When Jack was seated the hermit thus addressed him: “My son, on the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Jack was seated the hermit thus addressed him: “My son, on the top of this mountain is an enchanted castle, kept by the giant Galligantus and a vile magician. Who acts: son. 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 60

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When Jack was seated the hermit thus addressed him: “My son, on the top of this mountain is an enchanted castle, kept by the giant Galligantus and a vile magician.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** seat, address, enchant, be, keep · **To what, where:** Jack, enchanted castle

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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 (son), 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:pg503:54:60
# text = When Jack was seated the hermit thus addressed him: “My son, on the top of this mountain is an enchanted castle, kept by the giant Galligantus and a vile magician.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Galligantus	Galligantus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** | past |  |  | Jack |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 3 | **enchant** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My son | a enchanted castle and a vile magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | participle |  | a enchanted castle and a vile magician *not said here* |  |  |  | by the giant Galligantus | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by galligantus=Location |

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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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