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title: So Jack called his mother, and they both gazed in silent wonder at t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Jack called his mother, and they both gazed in silent wonder at the Beanstalk, which was not only of great height, but was thick enough to bear Jack’s weight. Who acts: Jack, they, Beanstalk. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 1

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So Jack called his mother, and they both gazed in silent wonder at the Beanstalk, which was not only of great height, but was thick enough to bear Jack’s weight.

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**Who acts:** Jack, they, Beanstalk · **What happens:** call, gaze, not be, be, bear · **To what, where:** mother, weight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, they, Beanstalk), 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:pg540:16:1
# text = So Jack called his mother, and they both gazed in silent wonder at the Beanstalk, which was not only of great height, but was thick enough to bear Jack’s weight.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  | Jack's mother |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | they |  |  |  |  | at the Beanstalk; in silent wonder; both *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wonder=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the Beanstalk |  |  |  |  | of great height | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | enough, thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | Jack's weight |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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