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title: Early in the morning Jack put a bold face upon the matter, and walke… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning Jack put a bold face upon the matter, and walked into the giant’s room to thank him for his lodging. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 35

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Early in the morning Jack put a bold face upon the matter, and walked into the giant’s room to thank him for his lodging.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** put, walk, thank · **To what, where:** bold face, matter, room, Jack

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg503:54:35
# text = Early in the morning Jack put a bold face upon the matter, and walked into the giant’s room to thank him for his lodging.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Jack | a bold face |  | the matter | morning | early *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme upon matter=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the giant's room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  | Jack |  |  | for Jack's lodging | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for lodging=Attribute |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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