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title: After some time spent in mirth and pastime, Jack, taking leave of th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After some time spent in mirth and pastime, Jack, taking leave of the knights and ladies, set out for new adventures. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 114

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After some time spent in mirth and pastime, Jack, taking leave of the knights and ladies, set out for new adventures.

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**What happens:** spend, take, set out · **To what, where:** time, mirth, leave

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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: 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:pg7439:23:114
# text = After some time spent in mirth and pastime, Jack, taking leave of the knights and ladies, set out for new adventures.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  | mirth and pastime |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | leave of the knights and ladies |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | participle |  |  |  |  | time | for new adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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