--- title: Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what with showing t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what with showing that and selling the golden eggs, Jack and his mother became very rich, and he married a great princess, and they lived happy ever after. Who acts: Jack, mother, eggs. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/128/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/) / 128 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 128 Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what with showing that and selling the golden eggs, Jack and his mother became very rich, and he married a great princess, and they lived happy ever after. **Who acts:** Jack, mother, eggs · **What happens:** show, sell, become, marry, live · **To what, where:** golden harp, mother, that, golden eggs, great princess 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, mother, eggs), 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:pg7439:16:128 # text = Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what with showing that and selling the golden eggs, Jack and his mother became very rich, and he married a great princess, and they lived happy ever after. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 12 with with SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 advmod _ _ 41 after after ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | Jack | Jack's golden harp | Jack's mother | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient harp=Topic | | 2 | **show** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | that | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | | 3 | **sell** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | the golden eggs | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | Jack's mother | | | | | rich *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **marry** | past | Jack | a great princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 6 | **live** | past | eggs *= egg* | | | | | after, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/127/) - next →: [The Story of the Three Littl…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/1/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)