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title: But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the wh… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming. Who acts: Jack, whole house, someone. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 59

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But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming.

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**Who acts:** Jack, whole house, someone · **What happens:** not finish, begin, tremble, come, noise · **To what, where:** thump thump

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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, whole house, someone), 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:pg7439:16:59
# text = But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	advmod	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
13	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **finish** | past · perfect | Jack | this thump thump |  |  |  | half *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thump=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the whole house |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | the whole house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the noise of someone | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **noise** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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