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title: “You'll have to catch me first,” quoth Jack, and throwing off his in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You'll have to catch me first,” quoth Jack, and throwing off his invisible coat, so that the giant might see him, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he ran from the giant, who followed like a walking castle, so that the very foundations of the earth seemed to shake at every step. Who acts: You,
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 109

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“You'll have to catch me first,” quoth Jack, and throwing off his invisible coat, so that the giant might see him, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he ran from the giant, who followed like a walking castle, so that the very foundations of the earth seemed to shake at every step.

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**Who acts:** You, giant, foundations · **What happens:** have, catch, quoth, throw off, see, put · **To what, where:** giant, Jack, invisible coat, shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, giant, foundations), 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:pg7439:23:109
# text = “You'll have to catch me first,” quoth Jack, and throwing off his invisible coat, so that the giant might see him, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he ran from the giant, who followed like a walking castle, so that the very foundations of the earth seemed to shake at every step.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
15	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
45	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
50	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	58	mark	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	fixed	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	very	very	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
63	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | the giant *= giant* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **quoth** | present | You *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw off** | gerund | giant *not said here* | Jack's invisible coat |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | might | the giant | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **put** | gerund | giant *not said here* |  |  | giant's shoes of swiftness |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination |
| 7 | **run** | past | giant |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **follow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a walking castle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **seem** | past | the foundations of the earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 10 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the foundations of the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at every step | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at step=Stimulus |

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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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