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title: Jack was amazed to see them pick the bones of the bullock as if it h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack was amazed to see them pick the bones of the bullock as if it had been a lark. Who acts: Jack, bones, bullock. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 9

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Jack was amazed to see them pick the bones of the bullock as if it had been a lark.

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**Who acts:** Jack, bones, bullock · **What happens:** be, see, pick · **To what, where:** bones, lark

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, bones, bullock), 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:pg540:18:9
# text = Jack was amazed to see them pick the bones of the bullock as if it had been a lark.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick** | infinitive | bones *= bone* *not said here* | the bones of the bullock |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | bullock | a lark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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