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title: Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was on the way, he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. Who acts: Jack, boy, butcher. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 6

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Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was on the way, he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand.

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**Who acts:** Jack, boy, butcher · **What happens:** like, go, sell, be, meet, have · **To what, where:** market, cow, way, butcher, beautiful beans, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, boy, butcher), 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:pg540:15:6
# text = Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was on the way, he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | Jack *not said here* | market |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the cow |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy |  |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | past | boy | a butcher |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | a butcher | some beautiful beans |  | boy's hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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