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title: I have changed the name so as to retain the _équivoque_ of the giant… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have changed the name so as to retain the _équivoque_ of the giant's reply to the King. Who acts: I, giant. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 2

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I have changed the name so as to retain the \_équivoque\_ of the giant's reply to the King.

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**Who acts:** I, giant · **What happens:** change, retain, reply · **To what, where:** name, équivoque \_

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, giant), 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:pg7439:57:2
# text = I have changed the name so as to retain the _équivoque_ of the giant's reply to the King.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	équivoque	équivoque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · perfect | I | the name |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **retain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the équivoque \_ of the giant's reply to the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | to the King | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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