--- title: As they were all of them (Jack, mouse, frog, and eagle) passing over… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As they were all of them (Jack, mouse, frog, and eagle) passing over the great sea, they fell to quarrelling about which it was that got the little box, till down it slipped into the water. Who acts: mice, eagle, quarrelling. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/93/) [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/) / 93 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 93 As they were all of them (Jack, mouse, frog, and eagle) passing over the great sea, they fell to quarrelling about which it was that got the little box, till down it slipped into the water. **Who acts:** mice, eagle, quarrelling · **What happens:** be, pass, fall, get, slip · **To what, where:** great sea, little box, water 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 (mice, eagle, quarrelling), 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:pg7439:20:93 # text = As they were all of them (Jack, mouse, frog, and eagle) passing over the great sea, they fell to quarrelling about which it was that got the little box, till down it slipped into the water. 1 As as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 quarrelling quarrelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 down down ADP IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | mice *= mouse* | | | | | as Jack | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | eagle *not said here* | | | the great sea | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | | 3 | **fall** | past | mice *= mouse* | | | | | to quarrelling | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarrelling=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | quarrelling | the little box | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | | 5 | **slip** | past | quarrelling | | | the water | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/94/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)