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title: ‘Rumour whispered of these treasures; and a monstrous giant, who liv… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Rumour whispered of these treasures; and a monstrous giant, who lived at no great distance, and who was a very wicked being, resolved to obtain possession of them. Who acts: Rumour, monstrous giant. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its depen
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 18

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‘Rumour whispered of these treasures; and a monstrous giant, who lived at no great distance, and who was a very wicked being, resolved to obtain possession of them.

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**Who acts:** Rumour, monstrous giant · **What happens:** whisper, live, be, resolve, obtain, possess · **To what, where:** monstrous giant, possession, treasures

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rumour, monstrous giant), 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:pg540:16:18
# text = ‘Rumour whispered of these treasures; and a monstrous giant, who lived at no great distance, and who was a very wicked being, resolved to obtain possession of them.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rumour	Rumour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Rumour | a monstrous giant |  |  |  | of this treasures | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | a monstrous giant |  |  |  |  | at no great distance | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | to-infinitive |  | possession of treasures |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset possession=Theme |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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