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title: It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went off as fast as he could walk. Who acts: rest, Jack, Deary. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 24

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It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went off as fast as he could walk.

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**Who acts:** rest, Jack, Deary · **What happens:** not be, wait, receive, go off, walk · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, Jack, Deary), 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:pg7439:13:24
# text = It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went off as fast as he could walk.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | rest |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **go off** | past | Deary |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | could | Deary |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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