--- title: Putting his hand to his pocket, the prince gave the woman all he had… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Putting his hand to his pocket, the prince gave the woman all he had left, so that after their day's food, which cost what small spell Jack had by him, they were without a penny between them. Who acts: prince, food, small spell, debts. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/41/) [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 the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/) / 41 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 41 Putting his hand to his pocket, the prince gave the woman all he had left, so that after their day's food, which cost what small spell Jack had by him, they were without a penny between them. **Who acts:** prince, food, small spell, debts · **What happens:** put, give, leave, cost, have, be · **To what, where:** hand, all, woman, food 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 (prince, food, small spell, debts), 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:pg7439:23:41 # text = Putting his hand to his pocket, the prince gave the woman all he had left, so that after their day's food, which cost what small spell Jack had by him, they were without a penny between them. 1 Putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 csubj _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 iobj _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 that that ADV RB _ 24 nsubj _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 without without ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 41 between between ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | gerund | | prince's hand | | | after debts's day's food | to prince's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 2 | **give** | past | the prince | all | the woman | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient all=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | prince | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | past | debts's day's food | debts's day's food | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | | 5 | **have** | past | small spell | | | | | by prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | debts *= debt* | | | | | without a penny; between numbers *= number* | tree rules | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/42/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)