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title: THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY(12) — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY(12) A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 51

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THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY(12)

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:15:51
# text = THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY(12)
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	GIANTS	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	HERD	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	BOY	BOY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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