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title: The knight and his lady thanked Jack for their deliverance, and invi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The knight and his lady thanked Jack for their deliverance, and invited him to their house, to receive a proper reward for his services. Who acts: knight, knights, Jack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 53

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The knight and his lady thanked Jack for their deliverance, and invited him to their house, to receive a proper reward for his services.

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**Who acts:** knight, knights, Jack · **What happens:** thank, invite, receive, deliver, service · **To what, where:** Jack, proper reward

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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 (knight, knights, 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:pg503:54:53
# text = The knight and his lady thanked Jack for their deliverance, and invited him to their house, to receive a proper reward for his services.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	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	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	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 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the knight and Jack's lady |  | Jack |  |  | for knights's deliverance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jack=Theme for deliverance=Attribute |
| 2 | **invite** | past |  |  | Jack |  |  | to knights's house | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive |  | a proper reward |  |  |  | for Jack's services | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver** |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **service** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «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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