--- title: Now there was a little hole in the wall rather high up, and Jack's w… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now there was a little hole in the wall rather high up, and Jack's wife tried to reach up into a chest there after "crooked and straight," but at last she asked the king's son to help her, because his arms were longest. Who acts: little hole, wife, arms. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hole, wife, arms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:20:73 # text = Now there was a little hole in the wall rather high up, and Jack's wife tried to reach up into a chest there after "crooked and straight," but at last she asked the king's son to help her, because his arms were longest. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 rather rather ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 26 after after SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 crooked crooked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 because because SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 50 longest long ADV RBS Degree=Sup 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a little hole in the wall | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | Jack's wife | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **reach up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack's wife *not said here* | | | a chest; there | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into chest=Path | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | wife | | the king's son | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | wife | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 6 | **be** | past | hole's arms | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/74/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)