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title: With that, greatly wondering, the giant led Jack to breakfast, bring… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With that, greatly wondering, the giant led Jack to breakfast, bringing him a bowl containing four gallons of hasty pudding. Who acts: giant, bowl. 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 29

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With that, greatly wondering, the giant led Jack to breakfast, bringing him a bowl containing four gallons of hasty pudding.

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**Who acts:** giant, bowl · **What happens:** wonder, lead, bring, contain · **To what, where:** Jack, breakfast, bowl, four gallons

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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 (giant, bowl), 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:pg7439:23:29
# text = With that, greatly wondering, the giant led Jack to breakfast, bringing him a bowl containing four gallons of hasty pudding.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the giant | Jack |  | breakfast |  | with that | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme to breakfast=Destination |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the giant *not said here* | a bowl | Jack |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bowl=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | a bowl *not said here* | four gallons of hasty pudding |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gallon=Theme |

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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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