--- title: Then Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and then to make all the noise they could. Who acts: 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/35/) [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/) / 35 # English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 35 Then Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and then to make all the noise they could. **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** go back, tell, wait, give, make · **To what, where:** robbers, word, noise · **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 (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:pg7439:10:35 # text = Then Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and then to make all the noise they could. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | Jack | | | | then | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack *not said here* | | robbers *= robber* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | Jack | the word | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | all noise | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/36/) - ↑ back to [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/)