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title: “Oh, but,” quoth Jack, “here's the king's son a-coming with a thousa… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, but,” quoth Jack, “here's the king's son a-coming with a thousand men in armour to kill you and destroy all that you have!” Who acts: son, you. 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 55

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“Oh, but,” quoth Jack, “here's the king's son a-coming with a thousand men in armour to kill you and destroy all that you have!”

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**Who acts:** son, you · **What happens:** quoth, be, come, kill, destroy, have · **To what, where:** Jack, you, all

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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 (son, you), 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:pg7439:23:55
# text = “Oh, but,” quoth Jack, “here's the king's son a-coming with a thousand men in armour to kill you and destroy all that you have!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quoth** | present |  | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | the king's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thousand men in armour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the king's son *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **destroy** *in a quote* | infinitive | the king's son *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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