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title: “Then if it's that little rogue that stole your gold and the hen tha… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then if it's that little rogue that stole your gold and the hen that laid the golden eggs he's sure to have got into the oven.” Who acts: dearie, little rogue, hen. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 103

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“Then if it's that little rogue that stole your gold and the hen that laid the golden eggs he's sure to have got into the oven.”

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**Who acts:** dearie, little rogue, hen · **What happens:** be, steal, lay, get · **To what, where:** little rogue, gold, golden eggs, oven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dearie, little rogue, hen), 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:pg7439:16:103
# text = “Then if it's that little rogue that stole your gold and the hen that laid the golden eggs he's sure to have got into the oven.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | dearie | little rogue |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | little rogue | your gold |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** *in a quote* | past | the hen | the golden eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the hen |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · perfect | the hen *not said here* |  |  | the oven |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into oven=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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