--- title: About this time they came in sight of a house, and Jack told them to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: About this time they came in sight of a house, and Jack told them to keep still while he went up and looked in through the window. Who acts: jolt, Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/) / 33 # English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 33 About this time they came in sight of a house, and Jack told them to keep still while he went up and looked in through the window. **Who acts:** jolt, Jack · **What happens:** come, tell, keep, go up, look in, sight · **To what, where:** sight, jolt, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jolt, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:10:33 # text = About this time they came in sight of a house, and Jack told them to keep still while he went up and looked in through the window. 1 About about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | jolt | | | sight of a house | time | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack | | jolt | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go up** | past | Jack | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **look in** | past | Jack *not said here* | | | | | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | | 6 | **sight** | | | a house | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/34/) - ↑ back to [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/)