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title: But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant’s castle, and all his adventures. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 20

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But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant’s castle, and all his adventures.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** put, tell, be, adventure · **To what, where:** brown hen, hen, Giant castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:17:20
# text = But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant’s castle, and all his adventures.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Jack | the brown hen |  |  | before hen | down *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme before she=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack *not said here* |  | hen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Jack |  |  | the Giant castle and Jack's adventures |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **adventure** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «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 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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