--- title: At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhoo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said: “Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast. Who acts: ogre, wife. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/65/) [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/) / 65 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 65 At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said: “Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast. **Who acts:** ogre, wife · **What happens:** have, string up, unhook, throw down, say, broil · **To what, where:** three calves, belt, calves, table, couple, ogre · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ogre, wife), 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:pg7439:16:65 # text = At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said: “Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 strung string VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 unhooked unhook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 broil broil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 nmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | ogre | three calves | | ogre's belt | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient | | 2 | **string up** | participle | | three calves *not said here* | | | | by the heels | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by heel=Destination | | 3 | **unhook** | past | ogre | calves *= calf* | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **throw down** | past | ogre *not said here* | calves *= calf* | | the table | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ogre *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **broil** *in a quote* | infinitive | wife | a couple of these | ogre | here | | for breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary couple=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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/66/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)