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title: The castle vanished away like smoke, and the head of the giant Galli… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The castle vanished away like smoke, and the head of the giant Galligantus was then sent to King Arthur. Who acts: castle. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 69

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The castle vanished away like smoke, and the head of the giant Galligantus was then sent to King Arthur.

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**Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** vanish away, send · **To what, where:** head, King Arthur

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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 (castle), 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:pg503:54:69
# text = The castle vanished away like smoke, and the head of the giant Galligantus was then sent to King Arthur.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Galligantus	Galligantus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish away** | past | the castle |  |  |  |  | like smoke; away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | the head of the giant Galligantus | King Arthur |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to arthur=Destination |

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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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