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title: Jack now resolved to enter the giant's cave in search of his treasur… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack now resolved to enter the giant's cave in search of his treasure, and, passing along through a great many windings and turnings, he came at length to a large room paved with freestone, at the upper end of which was a boiling caldron, and on the right hand a large table, at which the giant used 
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 90

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Jack now resolved to enter the giant's cave in search of his treasure, and, passing along through a great many windings and turnings, he came at length to a large room paved with freestone, at the upper end of which was a boiling caldron, and on the right hand a large table, at which the giant used to dine.

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**Who acts:** Jack, upper end · **What happens:** resolve, enter, pass along, come, pave, boil · **To what, where:** right hand, cave, search, great many windings, length, large room

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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, upper end), 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:pg7439:23:90
# text = Jack now resolved to enter the giant's cave in search of his treasure, and, passing along through a great many windings and turnings, he came at length to a large room paved with freestone, at the upper end of which was a boiling caldron, and on the right hand a large table, at which the giant used to dine.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	windings	winding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	turnings	turning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	freestone	freestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	amod	_	_
49	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nmod	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
64	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	acl	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Jack |  |  | the right hand and a large table | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the giant's cave |  | search of Jack's treasure |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination |
| 3 | **pass along** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  | a great many windings and turnings |  | along *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through winding=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | Jack |  |  | length to a large room | at the upper end |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 5 | **pave** | participle |  | a large room *not said here* |  |  |  | with freestone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with freestone=Theme |
| 6 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the upper end | a boiling caldron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **use** | participle |  | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **dine** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **search** |  |  | Jack's treasure |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **treasure** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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