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title: Jack opens the little box, and told the little men to go back and to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack opens the little box, and told the little men to go back and to bring the castle here to them; “and all of you make as much haste back again as you possibly can.” Who acts: Jack, all. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree a
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 100

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Jack opens the little box, and told the little men to go back and to bring the castle here to them; “and all of you make as much haste back again as you possibly can.”

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**Who acts:** Jack, all · **What happens:** open, tell, go back, bring, make · **To what, where:** little box, little men, castle, frogs, much haste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, all), 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:pg7439:20:100
# text = Jack opens the little box, and told the little men to go back and to bring the castle here to them; “and all of you make as much haste back again as you possibly can.”
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Jack | the little box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack *not said here* |  | the little men |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the castle | frogs *= frog* | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to they=Destination |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | all | much haste |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |

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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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