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title: “Well,” said Jack, “I want a great lake and some of the largest man-… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said Jack, “I want a great lake and some of the largest man-of-war vessels in the world before this mansion, and one of the largest vessels to fire a royal salute, and the last round to break one of the legs of the bed where this young lady is sleeping.” Who acts: Jack, young lady. A sentenc
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 26

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“Well,” said Jack, “I want a great lake and some of the largest man-of-war vessels in the world before this mansion, and one of the largest vessels to fire a royal salute, and the last round to break one of the legs of the bed where this young lady is sleeping.”

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**Who acts:** Jack, young lady · **What happens:** say, want, break, sleep · **To what, where:** great lake, one · **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, young lady), 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:pg7439:20:26
# text = “Well,” said Jack, “I want a great lake and some of the largest man-of-war vessels in the world before this mansion, and one of the largest vessels to fire a royal salute, and the last round to break one of the legs of the bed where this young lady is sleeping.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	ccomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	acl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	62	advmod	_	_
58	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
59	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Jack | a great lake |  |  | before this mansion |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lake=Theme |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | one of the legs of the bed |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient |
| 4 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this young lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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