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title: And they let him go, and he was down for three days and three nights… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And they let him go, and he was down for three days and three nights; and up he comes, and shows his nose and little mouth out of the water; and all of them asked him, Did he get it? and he told them, No. “Well, what are you doing there, then?” Who acts: frogs, valet, all, No.. A sentence of «Englis
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 96

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And they let him go, and he was down for three days and three nights; and up he comes, and shows his nose and little mouth out of the water; and all of them asked him, Did he get it? and he told them, No. “Well, what are you doing there, then?”

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**Who acts:** frogs, valet, all, No. · **What happens:** let, go, be, come, show, ask · **To what, where:** valet, nose, water, frogs · **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 (frogs, valet, all, No.), 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:pg7439:20:96
# text = And they let him go, and he was down for three days and three nights; and up he comes, and shows his nose and little mouth out of the water; and all of them asked him, Did he get it? and he told them, No. “Well, what are you doing there, then?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
52	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
53	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	59	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	59	obj	_	_
57	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	ccomp	_	_
60	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | frogs *= frog* | valet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | valet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | valet |  |  |  | day | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | valet |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | present | valet *not said here* | valet's nose and little mouth |  | the water |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nose=Recipient |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | all |  | valet |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **get** | past · do-support | valet | water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | valet |  | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | No. |  |  | there | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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