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title: Jack, having hitherto been successful in all his undertakings, resol… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack, having hitherto been successful in all his undertakings, resolved not to be idle in future; he therefore furnished himself with a horse, a cap of knowledge, a sword of sharpness, shoes of swiftness, and an invisible coat, the better to perform the wonderful enterprises that lay before him. Who
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 47

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Jack, having hitherto been successful in all his undertakings, resolved not to be idle in future; he therefore furnished himself with a horse, a cap of knowledge, a sword of sharpness, shoes of swiftness, and an invisible coat, the better to perform the wonderful enterprises that lay before him.

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**Who acts:** Jack, wonderful enterprises · **What happens:** have, be, resolve, not be, furnish, perform · **To what, where:** undertakings, future, Jack, wonderful enterprises

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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, wonderful enterprises), 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:pg503:54:47
# text = Jack, having hitherto been successful in all his undertakings, resolved not to be idle in future; he therefore furnished himself with a horse, a cap of knowledge, a sword of sharpness, shoes of swiftness, and an invisible coat, the better to perform the wonderful enterprises that lay before him.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	undertakings	undertaking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	parataxis	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	csubj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	enterprises	enterprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	before	before	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | Jack *not said here* |  |  | Jack's undertakings |  | hitherto, successful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | participle |  | Jack's undertakings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | future |  | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **furnish** | past | Jack | Jack |  |  |  | with a horse and a sword of sharpness; therefore *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with horse=Theme |
| 6 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  | the wonderful enterprises |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Theme |
| 7 | **lay** | present | the wonderful enterprises |  |  |  | before Jack |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
| 8 | **undertake** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom undertaking «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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