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title: The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and m… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were nearly out of sight. Who acts: giant, young lovers, lovers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its dependency tree and the 
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 49

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The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were nearly out of sight.

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**Who acts:** giant, young lovers, lovers · **What happens:** have, tread, get, meanwhile, run on, be · **To what, where:** this, sight

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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, young lovers, lovers), 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:pg7439:12:49
# text = The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were nearly out of sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	meanwhile	meanwhile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cautiously *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* |  |  | this |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through this=Destination |
| 4 | **meanwhile** | past | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run on** | past | the young lovers |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | lovers *= lover* |  |  | sight |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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