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title: I have a tool to pick his teeth; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have a tool to pick his teeth; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk out into the garden, and you shall witness this giant Thunderdell's death and destruction.” Who acts: I, you, ladies. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 99

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I have a tool to pick his teeth; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk out into the garden, and you shall witness this giant Thunderdell's death and destruction.”

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**Who acts:** I, you, ladies · **What happens:** have, pick, lady, walk out, death · **To what, where:** tool, teeth, garden

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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 (I, you, ladies), 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:pg7439:23:99
# text = I have a tool to pick his teeth; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk out into the garden, and you shall witness this giant Thunderdell's death and destruction.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
26	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
28	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	Thunderdell	Thunderdell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a tool |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Jack's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **lady** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk out** | infinitive | ladies and gentlemen |  |  | the garden |  | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **death** | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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