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title: When Jack had got his bagpipes he said, ‘Daddy, do go to the smithy… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Jack had got his bagpipes he said, ‘Daddy, do go to the smithy and have the house cock shod for me; then I’ll ride off and trouble you no more.’ Who acts: Jack, house cock, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 18

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When Jack had got his bagpipes he said, ‘Daddy, do go to the smithy and have the house cock shod for me; then I’ll ride off and trouble you no more.’

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**Who acts:** Jack, house cock, I · **What happens:** get, say, go, have, shoe, ride off · **To what, where:** bagpipes, smithy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, house cock, I), 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:pg7277:48:18
# text = When Jack had got his bagpipes he said, ‘Daddy, do go to the smithy and have the house cock shod for me; then I’ll ride off and trouble you no more.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shod	shoe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	appos	_	_
35	no	no	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Jack | Jack's bagpipes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bagpipe=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | the smithy |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shoe** | past | the house cock |  |  |  |  | for me | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ride off** | future | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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