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title: Quoth he: “What news with my poor cousin Jack?” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Quoth he: “What news with my poor cousin Jack?” 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 51

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Quoth he: “What news with my poor cousin Jack?”

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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:pg7439:23:51
# text = Quoth he: “What news with my poor cousin Jack?”
1	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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