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title: No other giant of the day could stand before him; and such was his s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No other giant of the day could stand before him; and such was his strength, that, when well vexed, he could give a stamp that shook the country about him. Who acts: other giant, that, giant, stamp. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 8

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No other giant of the day could stand before him; and such was his strength, that, when well vexed, he could give a stamp that shook the country about him.

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**Who acts:** other giant, that, giant, stamp · **What happens:** stand, be, vex, give, shake · **To what, where:** such strength, stamp, country

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other giant, that, giant, stamp), 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:pg7885:22:8
# text = No other giant of the day could stand before him; and such was his strength, that, when well vexed, he could give a stamp that shook the country about him.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | could | no other giant of the day |  |  |  | before Cucullin |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Cucullin's such strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vex** | participle | that |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give** | could | giant | a stamp |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=Theme |
| 5 | **shake** | past | a stamp | the country |  |  |  | about Cucullin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme about he=Trajectory |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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