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title: Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, J… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, Jack ripped open the bag, and out came all the hasty pudding. Who acts: Jack, giant. 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 31

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Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, Jack ripped open the bag, and out came all the hasty pudding.

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**Who acts:** Jack, giant · **What happens:** tell, show, take, rip, open, come · **To what, where:** giant, trick, Jack, knife, bag, hasty pudding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, giant), 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:pg7439:23:31
# text = Then, telling the giant he would show him a trick, taking a knife, Jack ripped open the bag, and out came all the hasty pudding.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ripped	rip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  | the giant |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | would | giant | a trick | Jack |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trick=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | a knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **rip** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **open** | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | Jack *not said here* | all hasty pudding |  |  |  | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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