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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 128

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Jack had no sooner read this but he blew the trumpet, at which the castle trembled to its vast foundations, and the giant and conjurer were in horrid confusion, biting their thumbs and tearing their hair, knowing their wicked reign was at an end.

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**Who acts:** Jack, giant, wicked reign · **What happens:** have, read, blow, tremble, be, bite · **To what, where:** this, trumpet, castle, horrid confusion, thumbs, hair · **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 (Jack, giant, wicked reign), 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:pg7439:23:128
# text = Jack had no sooner read this but he blew the trumpet, at which the castle trembled to its vast foundations, and the giant and conjurer were in horrid confusion, biting their thumbs and tearing their hair, knowing their wicked reign was at an end.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	conjurer	conjurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | this |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 3 | **blow** | past | Jack | the trumpet |  | the castle |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient |
| 4 | **tremble** | participle |  | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | to trumpet's vast foundations | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the giant and conjurer |  |  | horrid confusion |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bite** | gerund | the giant and conjurer *not said here* | foundations's thumbs |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient |
| 7 | **tear** | gerund | the giant and conjurer *not said here* | thumbs's hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hair=Theme |
| 8 | **know** | gerund | the giant and conjurer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** | past | thumbs's wicked reign |  |  |  | at a end |  | 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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