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title: So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in the beginning of a dark winter's evening, when he fell to work, and before morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly as broad, covering it over with long sticks and straw. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy T
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 12

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So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in the beginning of a dark winter's evening, when he fell to work, and before morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly as broad, covering it over with long sticks and straw.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** get, go over, fall, work, dig, cover over · **To what, where:** horn, beginning, pit, evening

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. 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:pg7439:22:12
# text = So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in the beginning of a dark winter's evening, when he fell to work, and before morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly as broad, covering it over with long sticks and straw.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shovel	shovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	over	over	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Jack | a horn and shovel |  |  |  | pickaxe *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go over** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  | in the beginning of a dark winter's evening | to the Mount; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in beginning=Location |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dig** | past · perfect | Jack *not said here* | a pit |  |  | morning |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme |
| 6 | **cover over** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | pit |  |  |  | with long sticks and straw | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with stick=Theme |
| 7 | **begin** |  |  | a dark winter's evening |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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