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title: Now, there were strong cords in a corner of the room in which Jack w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, there were strong cords in a corner of the room in which Jack was, and two of these he took, and made a strong noose at the end; and while the giants were unlocking the iron gate of the castle he threw the ropes over each of their heads. Who acts: strong cords, two, giants, Jack. A sentence of 
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 13

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Now, there were strong cords in a corner of the room in which Jack was, and two of these he took, and made a strong noose at the end; and while the giants were unlocking the iron gate of the castle he threw the ropes over each of their heads.

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**Who acts:** strong cords, two, giants, Jack · **What happens:** be, take, make, unlock, throw · **To what, where:** strong noose, end, iron gate, ropes, each

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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 (strong cords, two, giants, Jack), 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:pg7439:23:13
# text = Now, there were strong cords in a corner of the room in which Jack was, and two of these he took, and made a strong noose at the end; and while the giants were unlocking the iron gate of the castle he threw the ropes over each of their heads.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	_
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	unlocking	unlock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | strong cords in a corner of the room in a corner of the room |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | two of these |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | two of these *not said here* | a strong noose |  |  | at the end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noose=Product |
| 4 | **unlock** | past · progressive | the giants | the iron gate of the castle |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | past | Jack | the ropes |  | each |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rope=Theme over each=Destination |

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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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