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title: JACK THE GIANT-KILLER XX. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: JACK THE GIANT-KILLER XX. Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 19

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JACK THE GIANT-KILLER XX.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** jack · **To what, where:** KILLER XX

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7439:4:19
# text = JACK THE GIANT-KILLER XX.
1	JACK	jack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	GIANT	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	KILLER	killer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	XX	xx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jack** | imperative | you *not said here* | the KILLER XX |  |  |  |  | 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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