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title: That poor silly Jack is threatened by taking his beautiful young wif… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That poor silly Jack is threatened by taking his beautiful young wife from him, for taking them in in the way he did. 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 clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 47

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That poor silly Jack is threatened by taking his beautiful young wife from him, for taking them in in the way he did.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** threaten, take, do · **To what, where:** poor silly Jack, beautiful young wife, pillars, way

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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:pg7439:20:47
# text = That poor silly Jack is threatened by taking his beautiful young wife from him, for taking them in in the way he did.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | present · passive |  | poor silly Jack |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | Jack's beautiful young wife |  |  |  | from Jack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | pillars *= pillar* |  | the way |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in way=Location |
| 4 | **do** | past | Jack | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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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