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title: The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the _Cento novelle antiche_ and Straparola, xi. Who acts: soul, person. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., with its depe
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# English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 14

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The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the \_Cento novelle antiche\_ and Straparola, xi.

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**Who acts:** soul, person · **What happens:** assist, cause, bury, find · **To what, where:** hero, person, Thankful Dead episode

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. 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 (soul, person), 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:pg7439:69:14
# text = The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the _Cento novelle antiche_ and Straparola, xi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Cento	Cento	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	novelle	novelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	antiche	antiche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Straparola	Straparola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	xi	xi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | present · passive | the soul of a person | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cause** | present · perfect | person | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | to-infinitive · passive | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | the Thankful Dead episode |  |  |  | early *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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