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title: He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round the wais… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round the waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages. Who acts: Mount. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 4

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He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round the waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages.

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**Who acts:** Mount · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** eighteen feet, height

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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 (Mount), 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:pg7439:22:4
# text = He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round the waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mount | eighteen feet |  | height |  |  | 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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