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title: At last he found the place; and there was one of the frogs on sentry… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he found the place; and there was one of the frogs on sentry, and gun upon his shoulder, and did try to hinder Jack from going in; but when Jack said to him that he wanted to see the King, he allowed him to pass; and Jack made up to the door. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tale
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 70

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At last he found the place; and there was one of the frogs on sentry, and gun upon his shoulder, and did try to hinder Jack from going in; but when Jack said to him that he wanted to see the King, he allowed him to pass; and Jack made up to the door.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** find, be, try, hinder, go in, say · **To what, where:** place, last, one, Jack, King · **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:pg7439:20:70
# text = At last he found the place; and there was one of the frogs on sentry, and gun upon his shoulder, and did try to hinder Jack from going in; but when Jack said to him that he wanted to see the King, he allowed him to pass; and Jack made up to the door.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Jack | the place |  | last |  | gun upon Jack's shoulder *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | one |  |  |  | of the frogs on sentry | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | past · do-support | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hinder** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer jack=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go in** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  | King |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 7 | **want** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | the King |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
| 9 | **allow** | past | Jack |  | King |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **pass** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **make up** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | to the door | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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