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title: Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver eq… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver equally amongst them and took them to a neighbouring castle, where they all feasted and made merry over their deliverance. Who acts: giant, coffers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 96

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Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver equally amongst them and took them to a neighbouring castle, where they all feasted and made merry over their deliverance.

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**Who acts:** giant, coffers · **What happens:** search, share, take, feast, make, deliver · **To what, where:** coffers, gold, neighbouring castle, deliverance

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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, coffers), 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:pg7439:23:96
# text = Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver equally amongst them and took them to a neighbouring castle, where they all feasted and made merry over their deliverance.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	coffers	coffer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	feasted	feast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	merry	merry	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | gerund | giant *not said here* | the giant's coffers |  |  | then |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent coffer=Location |
| 2 | **share** | past | giant | the gold and silver |  |  |  | amongst coffers *= coffer* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | giant *not said here* | coffers *= coffer* |  | a neighbouring castle |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 4 | **feast** | past | coffers *= coffer* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | coffers *= coffer* *not said here* |  |  | coffers's deliverance |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **deliver** |  | coffers *= coffer* |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act 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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