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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 30

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Being loth to let the giant think it too much for him, Jack put a large leather bag under his loose coat, in such a way that he could convey the pudding into it without its being perceived.

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**Who acts:** giant, Jack · **What happens:** be, let, think, put, convey, perceive · **To what, where:** giant, bowl, large leather bag, loose coat, pudding

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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, 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:pg7439:23:30
# text = Being loth to let the giant think it too much for him, Jack put a large leather bag under his loose coat, in such a way that he could convey the pudding into it without its being perceived.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
37	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | the giant *not said here* | bowl |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme much=Attribute |
| 4 | **put** | past | Jack | a large leather bag |  | Jack's loose coat |  | in such way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme under coat=Destination |
| 5 | **convey** | could | Jack | the pudding |  | bowl |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pudding=Topic |
| 6 | **perceive** | gerund · passive |  | bowl |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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