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title: Jack refused him for a bit; but at last he told him to jump up, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack refused him for a bit; but at last he told him to jump up, and Jack put him in his other waistcoat pocket. 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 76

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Jack refused him for a bit; but at last he told him to jump up, and Jack put him in his other waistcoat pocket.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** refuse, tell, jump up, put · **To what, where:** King, last, other waistcoat pocket · **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:pg7439:20:76
# text = Jack refused him for a bit; but at last he told him to jump up, and Jack put him in his other waistcoat pocket.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | Jack | King |  |  |  | for a bit | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  | King | last |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **jump up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | Jack | King |  | Jack's other waistcoat pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pocket=Destination |

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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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