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title: Chuck him up to me-e!'” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Chuck him up to me-e!'” Who acts: you. 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.
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# English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 50

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Chuck him up to me-e!'”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** chuck up · **To what, where:** fellow, me

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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 (you), 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:pg7439:10:50
# text = Chuck him up to me-e!'”
1	Chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck up** | imperative | you *not said here* | fellow | me |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination |

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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:** «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.

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