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title: After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: “Wife, wife, bring me… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: “Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp.” Who acts: breakfast, ogre. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 109

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After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: “Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp.”

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**Who acts:** breakfast, ogre · **What happens:** be, call out, bring · **To what, where:** ogre, golden harp, me · **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 (breakfast, ogre), 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:pg7439:16:109
# text = After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: “Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp.”
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | breakfast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | the ogre | my golden harp | me |  | after breakfast |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination harp=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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