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title: At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay ab… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad. 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 87

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At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad.

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**What happens:** roar, begin, lay, clap · **To what, where:** thunder

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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: 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:pg7439:23:87
# text = At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	roared	roar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	claps	clap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	stark	stark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about Jack; with Jack's iron club; like one stark | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination |
| 4 | **clap** |  |  | thunder |  |  |  |  | nom clap «event 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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