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title: When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of En… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only son called Jack. Who acts: good King Arthur, farmer. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 1

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When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only son called Jack.

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**Who acts:** good King Arthur, farmer · **What happens:** reign, live, have, call · **To what, where:** End, one son, Jack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good King Arthur, farmer), 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:pg7439:22:1
# text = When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only son called Jack.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	End	End	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past | good King Arthur |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | there | near the Land's End of England | in the county of Cornwall | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in county=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | a farmer | one son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | one son *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient |

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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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