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title: With hard persuasion poor Jack comes down, and the bear speaks to hi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With hard persuasion poor Jack comes down, and the bear speaks to him and bids him "Come here to me; I will not do you any harm. Who acts: poor Jack, bear. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 76

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With hard persuasion poor Jack comes down, and the bear speaks to him and bids him "Come here to me; I will not do you any harm.

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**Who acts:** poor Jack, bear · **What happens:** come down, speak, bid, come, not do · **To what, where:** Jack, bear, harm, you · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Jack, bear), 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:pg14241:27:76
# text = With hard persuasion poor Jack comes down, and the bear speaks to him and bids him "Come here to me; I will not do you any harm.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bids	bid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | present | poor Jack |  |  |  |  | with hard persuasion; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the bear |  | Jack |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bid** | present | the bear *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the bear *= bear* | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | future | the bear *= bear* | any harm | you |  |  |  | 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:** «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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