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title: The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a fami… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii. Who acts: latter part. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie.,
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# English Fairy Tales, XXII. Molly Whuppie., sentence 8

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The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii.

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**Who acts:** latter part · **What happens:** wander off, rob, wind up, see · **To what, where:** ii, giant, Cosquin

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter part), 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:pg7439:72:8
# text = The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanders	wander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
26	46-7	46-7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
45	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	44	obj	_	_
48	113	113	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
50	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander off** | present | the latter part | ii |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rob** *in a quote* | infinitive | the latter part *not said here* | giant of three things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wind up** | present | the latter part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the sack trick; finally *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present |  | Cosquin |  |  |  |  | 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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