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title: By this time Jack dressed himself, and said his prayers, and came do… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time Jack dressed himself, and said his prayers, and came down laughing; for he was proud, he was, because the thing was done so well. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 29

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By this time Jack dressed himself, and said his prayers, and came down laughing; for he was proud, he was, because the thing was done so well.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** dress, say, come down, laugh, be, do · **To what, where:** Jack, prayers · **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), 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:pg7439:20:29
# text = By this time Jack dressed himself, and said his prayers, and came down laughing; for he was proud, he was, because the thing was done so well.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **dress** | past | Jack | Jack |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack *not said here* | Jack's prayers |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 3 | **come down** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past · passive |  | Jack |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **pray** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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