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title: The poor lad had not gone far, when his father called him back; then… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor lad had not gone far, when his father called him back; then the old man drew out of his pocket a golden snuff-box, and said to him: “Here, take this little box, and put it in your pocket, and be sure not to open it till you are near your death.” Who acts: poor lad, father, old man, lad. A s
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 13

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The poor lad had not gone far, when his father called him back; then the old man drew out of his pocket a golden snuff-box, and said to him: “Here, take this little box, and put it in your pocket, and be sure not to open it till you are near your death.”

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**Who acts:** poor lad, father, old man, lad · **What happens:** not go, call back, draw out, say, take, put · **To what, where:** lad, pocket, little box, box, death · **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 (poor lad, father, old man, lad), 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:pg7439:20:13
# text = The poor lad had not gone far, when his father called him back; then the old man drew out of his pocket a golden snuff-box, and said to him: “Here, take this little box, and put it in your pocket, and be sure not to open it till you are near your death.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
53	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	near	near	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the poor lad |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call back** *speech: assert* | past | lad's father |  | lad |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw out** | past | the old man | lad's pocket |  |  | then |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent box=Beneficiary pocket=Result |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man *not said here* |  | lad |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this little box |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | box |  | your pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **open** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lad |  |  | your death |  |  | 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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