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title: By this time Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was very nearly home. Who acts: Jack. 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 121

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By this time Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was very nearly home.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** climb down, be

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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 (Jack), 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:pg7439:16:121
# text = By this time Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was very nearly home.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb down** | past · perfect | Jack |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **climb down** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **climb down** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | home, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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