--- title: And when Jack was going through the gates, the little mouse asked hi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And when Jack was going through the gates, the little mouse asked him, should he go with him; and Jack said to him: “No, I shall get myself into trouble with the King.” Who acts: Jack, little mouse. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/) / 65 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 65 And when Jack was going through the gates, the little mouse asked him, should he go with him; and Jack said to him: “No, I shall get myself into trouble with the King.” **Who acts:** Jack, little mouse · **What happens:** go, ask, say, get · **To what, where:** gates, Jack, King, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, little mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:20:65 # text = And when Jack was going through the gates, the little mouse asked him, should he go with him; and Jack said to him: “No, I shall get myself into trouble with the King.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 33 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 34 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Jack | | | the gates | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the little mouse | | Jack | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **go** | should | Jack | | | | | with King | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack | | King | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | Jack | Jack | | trouble with the King | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/66/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)