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title: When the giant saw the work done he was in a rage, and said: “I've a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 40

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When the giant saw the work done he was in a rage, and said: “I've a worse job for you to-morrow; there is a tree, seven miles high, and no branch on it, till you get to the top, and there is a nest with seven eggs in it, and you must bring down all the eggs without breaking one, or else I'll have you for my supper.”

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**Who acts:** giant, work, tree, you, nest, I · **What happens:** see, do, be, say, get, bring down · **To what, where:** work, rage, eggs, one, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (giant, work, tree, you), 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:pg7439:12:40
# text = When the giant saw the work done he was in a rage, and said: “I've a worse job for you to-morrow; there is a tree, seven miles high, and no branch on it, till you get to the top, and there is a nest with seven eggs in it, and you must bring down all the eggs without breaking one, or else I'll have you for my supper.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	53	expl	_	_
53	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
66	down	down	ADP	RP	_	65	compound:prt	_	_
67	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	69	det:predet	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	_
70	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
71	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	65	advcl	_	_
72	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
74	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
75	else	else	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
76	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
78	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	parataxis	_	_
79	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	78	obj	_	_
80	for	for	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
81	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	82	nmod:poss	_	_
82	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the giant | the work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | participle | the work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | giant |  |  | a rage |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a tree |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | to the top *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a nest with seven eggs in tree |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bring down** *in a quote* | must | you | all eggs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 9 | **break** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient |
| 10 | **have** *in a quote* | future | I | you |  |  |  | for my supper; else *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:** «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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