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title: He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all the hasty-pudding tumbled out upon the floor. Who acts: breakfast. 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 45

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He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all the hasty-pudding tumbled out upon the floor.

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**Who acts:** breakfast · **What happens:** take, rip up, tumble out, hold · **To what, where:** hold, leathern bag, hasty pudding, knife

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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 (breakfast), 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:pg503:54:45
# text = He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all the hasty-pudding tumbled out upon the floor.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ripped	rip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	leathern	leathern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | breakfast | hold of the knife |  |  | then | all hasty pudding *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **rip up** | participle | breakfast *not said here* | the leathern bag |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 3 | **tumble out** | participle |  | all hasty pudding *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the floor | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | the knife |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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:** «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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