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title: The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the West of England,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the West of England, so that another giant, named Blunderbore, hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever he should light on him. Who acts: news, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its depen
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 3

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The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the West of England, so that another giant, named Blunderbore, hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever he should light on him.

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**Who acts:** news, man · **What happens:** spread, name, vow, revenge, light, hear · **To what, where:** West, Jack

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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 (news, 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:pg7439:23:3
# text = The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the West of England, so that another giant, named Blunderbore, hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever he should light on him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	revenged	revenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the news of Jack's victory |  |  | all West of England |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over west=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle | the news of Jack's victory *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vow** | past | the news of Jack's victory *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **revenge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the news of Jack's victory *not said here* |  |  | Jack |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | man |  |  |  | ever | on Jack | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hear** |  | news |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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