--- title: Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and taking up the bags of mon… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and taking up the bags of money (which were his very own, because the Giant had stolen them from his father), he ran off, and with great difficulty descending the Beanstalk, laid the bags of gold on his mother’s table. Who acts: Jack, money, great difficulty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, money, great difficulty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:18:21 # text = Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and taking up the bags of money (which were his very own, because the Giant had stolen them from his father), he ran off, and with great difficulty descending the Beanstalk, laid the bags of gold on his mother’s table. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 softly softly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wardrobe wardrobe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 42 descending descend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Beanstalk Beanstalk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 46 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’s 's PART POS _ 53 case _ _ 55 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | past | Jack | | | the wardrobe | | softly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wardrobe=Location | | 2 | **take up** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | the bags of money | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | money | | | | | own *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **steal** | past · perfect · passive | | the Giant | | | | from Jack's father | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme | | 5 | **run off** | past | Jack | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **descend** | gerund | great difficulty *not said here* | the Beanstalk | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beanstalk=Theme | | 7 | **lay** | past | Jack *not said here* | the bags of gold | | Jack's mother's table | | with great difficulty | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on table=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/18/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/18/22/) - ↑ back to [The Money Bags.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/18/)