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title: There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the d… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the door-step. Who acts: great big tall woman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 78

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There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the door-step.

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**Who acts:** great big tall woman · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** great big tall woman

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great big tall woman), 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:pg7439:16:78
# text = There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the door-step.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the great big tall woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the great big tall woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the door step | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |

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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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