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title: But what was his surprise when there came forth a monstrous giant wi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But what was his surprise when there came forth a monstrous giant with two heads; yet he did not appear so fiery as the others were, for he was a Welsh giant, and what he did was by private and secret malice under the false show of friendship. Who acts: Jack, others. A sentence of «English Fairy Tal
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 20

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But what was his surprise when there came forth a monstrous giant with two heads; yet he did not appear so fiery as the others were, for he was a Welsh giant, and what he did was by private and secret malice under the false show of friendship.

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**Who acts:** Jack, others · **What happens:** be, come, not appear, do, show · **To what, where:** surprise, monstrous giant, Welsh giant, false show, friendship

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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, others), 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:pg7439:23:20
# text = But what was his surprise when there came forth a monstrous giant with two heads; yet he did not appear so fiery as the others were, for he was a Welsh giant, and what he did was by private and secret malice under the false show of friendship.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	45	nsubj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
46	under	under	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Jack's surprise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | a monstrous giant with two heads |  | there |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **appear** | past · do-support | Jack |  |  |  |  | fiery *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the others | a Welsh giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the false show of friendship |  | by private malice | tree rules |
| 7 | **show** |  |  | friendship |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: of=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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