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title: His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one tremendous blow cut through all the Beanstalks except one. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 10

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His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one tremendous blow cut through all the Beanstalks except one.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** run, cut · **To what, where:** Jack, one tremendous blow

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg540:20:10
# text = His mother ran to him with a hatchet in her hand, and Jack with one tremendous blow cut through all the Beanstalks except one.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Beanstalks	beanstalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	except	except	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Jack's mother |  | Jack |  |  | with a hatchet in Mother's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | one tremendous blow *not said here* |  |  |  | except one; through all Beanstalks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through beanstalk=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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