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title: Jack put full power on and despatched the little men off to bring th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack put full power on and despatched the little men off to bring the castle from there, and they soon got there. Who acts: Jack, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 117

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Jack put full power on and despatched the little men off to bring the castle from there, and they soon got there.

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**Who acts:** Jack, man · **What happens:** put, despatch off, bring, get · **To what, where:** full power, little men, castle

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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, man), 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:pg7439:20:117
# text = Jack put full power on and despatched the little men off to bring the castle from there, and they soon got there.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Jack | full power |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent power=Goal |
| 2 | **despatch off** | past | Jack *not said here* | the little men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme from there=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | past | man |  |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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