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title: This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him. Who acts: accident, Jack. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 7

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This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him.

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**Who acts:** accident, Jack · **What happens:** give, get, hasten down, reach, behold, descend · **To what, where:** Beanstalk, accident, own garden

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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 (accident, 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:pg540:20:7
# text = This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | this accident |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | this accident *not said here* |  |  | the Beanstalk |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on beanstalk=Source |
| 3 | **hasten down** | infinitive | this accident *not said here* | accident |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Jack | master's own garden |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 5 | **behold** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **descend** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  | after Jack |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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