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title: Jack, who never stood on ceremony, bawled out, "What a troop of fair… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack, who never stood on ceremony, bawled out, "What a troop of fair ladies we've got here!" Who acts: Jack, troop. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 114

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Jack, who never stood on ceremony, bawled out, "What a troop of fair ladies we've got here!"

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**Who acts:** Jack, troop · **What happens:** not stand, bawl out, get · **To what, where:** ceremony · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, troop), 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:pg14241:33:114
# text = Jack, who never stood on ceremony, bawled out, "What a troop of fair ladies we've got here!"
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bawled	bawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | past | Jack |  |  | ceremony |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | participle | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a troop of fair ladies |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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