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title: Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, and then he threw down the bag of gold which of course fell in to his mother's garden, and then he climbed down and climbed dow
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 74

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Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, and then he threw down the bag of gold which of course fell in to his mother's garden, and then he climbed down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother and showed her the gold and said: “Well, mother, wasn't I right about the beans.

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**Who acts:** Jack, ogre · **What happens:** creep out, pass, take, pelter, come, throw down · **To what, where:** tiptoe, ogre, one, arm, beanstalk, bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, ogre), 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:pg7439:16:74
# text = Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, and then he threw down the bag of gold which of course fell in to his mother's garden, and then he climbed down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother and showed her the gold and said: “Well, mother, wasn't I right about the beans.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	pelters	pelter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	down	down	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	fixed	_	_
53	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	in	in	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	's	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	64	advmod	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
65	down	down	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
68	down	down	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
69	till	till	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	at	at	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
72	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
73	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	acl:relcl	_	_
74	home	home	ADV	RB	_	73	advmod	_	_
75	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
76	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
77	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	78	nmod:poss	_	_
78	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	iobj	_	_
79	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
80	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	conj	_	_
81	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	80	iobj	_	_
82	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
83	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obj	_	_
84	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	85	cc	_	_
85	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	90	punct	_	_
87	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	90	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	90	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	88	punct	_	_
90	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	94	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	90	punct	_	_
92	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	94	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	94	advmod	_	_
94	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	85	ccomp	_	_
95	right	right	ADV	RB	_	98	advmod	_	_
96	about	about	ADP	IN	_	98	case	_	_
97	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	98	det	_	_
98	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	85	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
99	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep out** | past | Jack |  |  | tiptoe | then | from Jack's oven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | past · progressive | Jack | the ogre |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ogre=Trajectory |
| 3 | **take** | past | ogre | one of the bags of gold |  | ogre's arm |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **pelter** | present | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | ogre |  |  | the beanstalk |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beanstalk=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **throw down** | past | ogre | the bag of gold |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 7 | **fall in** | past |  | gold |  |  |  | to ogre's mother's garden *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient which=Extent to garden=Result |
| 8 | **climb down** | past | ogre |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **climb down** | past | ogre *not said here* |  |  |  | till last | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **get** | past | ogre | last *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer last=Stimulus |
| 11 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | ogre *not said here* |  | ogre's mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
| 12 | **show** | past | ogre *not said here* | the gold | mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gold=Topic |
| 13 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 14 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | ogre |  |  |  | mother *dislocated* | 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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