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title: But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare’s head off, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare’s head off, and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him. Who acts: Jack, evil one, all. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 144

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But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare’s head off, and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him.

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**Who acts:** Jack, evil one, all · **What happens:** change, bite off, possess, be · **To what, where:** Jack, head, Farmer, evil one

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, evil one, all), 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:pg540:43:144
# text = But Jack changed himself into a fox, and bit the hare’s head off, and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Jack | Jack |  |  |  | into a fox *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fox=Result |
| 2 | **bite off** | past | Jack *not said here* | the hare's head |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **possess** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the evil one | Farmer |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | all | the evil one *not said here* |  |  | now | with Farmer; over *property* | 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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