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title: “Whoever shall this trumpet blow, Shall soon the giant overthrow, An… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Whoever shall this trumpet blow, Shall soon the giant overthrow, And break the black enchantment straight; So all shall be in happy state.” A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 127

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“Whoever shall this trumpet blow, Shall soon the giant overthrow, And break the black enchantment straight; So all shall be in happy state.”

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**What happens:** break, be · **To what, where:** black enchantment, happy state

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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: 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:pg7439:23:127
# text = “Whoever shall this trumpet blow, Shall soon the giant overthrow, And break the black enchantment straight; So all shall be in happy state.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Shall	Shall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	So	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the black enchantment |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | shall |  |  |  | all happy state |  |  | 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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