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title: After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving him there while he went to fetch another giant, his brother, living in the same wood, who might share in the meal on Jack. Who acts: giant, Jack, same wood. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-kille
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 10

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After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving him there while he went to fetch another giant, his brother, living in the same wood, who might share in the meal on Jack.

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**Who acts:** giant, Jack, same wood · **What happens:** lock, leave, go, fetch, live, share · **To what, where:** poor Jack, immense chamber, Jack, giant, same wood, meal

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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 (giant, Jack, same wood), 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:pg7439:23:10
# text = After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving him there while he went to fetch another giant, his brother, living in the same wood, who might share in the meal on Jack.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | participle | the giant *not said here* | poor Jack |  | a immense chamber |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the giant *not said here* | Jack |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | another giant |  |  |  | Jack's brother *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  | the same wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 6 | **share** | might | the same wood |  |  | the meal on Jack |  |  | 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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