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title: He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his po… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his power to do right to those whom the Giant had robbed. Who acts: Jack, Giantess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 26

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He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his power to do right to those whom the Giant had robbed.

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**Who acts:** Jack, Giantess · **What happens:** have, bury, endeavour, lie, do, rob · **To what, where:** much, power, Giant

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Giantess), 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:pg540:21:26
# text = He had the Giantess buried, and endeavoured as much as lay in his power to do right to those whom the Giant had robbed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | past | the Giantess |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **endeavour** | past | Jack *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  | Jack's power |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in power=Location |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to those | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rob** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Giant |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

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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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