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title: Jack shook hands with the King, and returned many thanks for his kin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack shook hands with the King, and returned many thanks for his kingly kindness in minding the castle for him; and then Jack instructed the little men to spur up and put speed on. Who acts: Jack, kingly kindness. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, w
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 118

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Jack shook hands with the King, and returned many thanks for his kingly kindness in minding the castle for him; and then Jack instructed the little men to spur up and put speed on.

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**Who acts:** Jack, kingly kindness · **What happens:** shake, return, mind, instruct, spur up, put · **To what, where:** hands, many thanks, castle, little men

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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, kingly kindness), 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:pg7439:20:118
# text = Jack shook hands with the King, and returned many thanks for his kingly kindness in minding the castle for him; and then Jack instructed the little men to spur up and put speed on.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	spur	spur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | Jack | hands |  |  |  | with the King | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with king=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **return** | past | Jack *not said here* | many thanks |  |  |  | for Jack's kingly kindness | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 3 | **mind** | gerund | Jack's kingly kindness *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  | for Jack | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 4 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | Jack |  | the little men |  | then |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 5 | **spur up** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **put** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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