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title: But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two. Who acts: Jack, beanstalk. 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 124

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But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two.

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**Who acts:** Jack, beanstalk · **What happens:** jump down, get, give, cut, hold · **To what, where:** hold, chop, beanstalk, axe, two

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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, beanstalk), 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:pg7439:16:124
# text = But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump down** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | Jack *not said here* | hold of the axe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | Jack *not said here* | a chop |  | the beanstalk |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent chop=Theme at beanstalk=Asset |
| 4 | **cut** | past | the beanstalk | axe |  | two |  | half *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the axe |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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