--- title: Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got to the table when he got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards the door. Who acts: Jack. 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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:pg7439:16:113 # text = Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got to the table when he got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards the door. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 dashed dash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 44 towards towards ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift up** | past | Jack | the copper lid | | | then | quietly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | | 2 | **get down** | past | Jack *not said here* | | | | | like a mouse | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **creep** | past | Jack *not said here* | | | hands and knees | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory | | 4 | **get** | past | Jack | | | | | to the table *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to table=Result | | 5 | **get up** | past | Jack | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **catch** | past | Jack *not said here* | hold of the golden harp | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 7 | **dash** | past | Jack *not said here* | | | the door | | with harp | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards door=Destination | | 8 | **hold** | | | the golden harp | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/114/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)