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title: And sure enough Jack spied her and told her how his old father had a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And sure enough Jack spied her and told her how his old father had a wish to meet her, and would she be pleased to drink tea with them. Who acts: Jack, old father, girl. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 42

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And sure enough Jack spied her and told her how his old father had a wish to meet her, and would she be pleased to drink tea with them.

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**Who acts:** Jack, old father, girl · **What happens:** spy, tell, have, meet, be, drink · **To what, where:** girl, wish, tea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, old father, girl), 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:pg14241:20:42
# text = And sure enough Jack spied her and told her how his old father had a wish to meet her, and would she be pleased to drink tea with them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spy** | past | Jack | girl |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | Jack's old father | a wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Jack's old father *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | girl |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | tea |  |  |  | with things *= thing* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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