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title: The next day the giant came to claim the king's promise, and he sent… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the giant came to claim the king's promise, and he sent for the hen-wife's boy; and the giant went away with the boy on his back. Who acts: next day, giant, king. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 16

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The next day the giant came to claim the king's promise, and he sent for the hen-wife's boy; and the giant went away with the boy on his back.

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**Who acts:** next day, giant, king · **What happens:** come, claim, send, go away, promise · **To what, where:** promise, back

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, giant, king), 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:pg7439:12:16
# text = The next day the giant came to claim the king's promise, and he sent for the hen-wife's boy; and the giant went away with the boy on his back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the next day |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* | the king's promise |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic |
| 3 | **send** | past | giant |  |  |  |  | for the hen wife's boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go away** | past | the giant |  |  | giant's back |  | with the boy; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with boy=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **promise** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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