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title: “Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.” Who acts: right valiant Cornish man. 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 2

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“Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.”

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**Who acts:** right valiant Cornish man · **What happens:** be, slay · **To what, where:** giant Cormoran

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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 (right valiant Cornish man), 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:pg7439:23:2
# text = “Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the right valiant Cornish man |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** *in a quote* | past | the right valiant Cornish man | the giant Cormoran |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cormoran=Patient |

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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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