--- title: He soon overtook his master and they quickly arrived at the house of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He soon overtook his master and they quickly arrived at the house of the lady the prince sought, who, finding the prince to be a suitor, prepared a splendid banquet for him. Who acts: Jack, shoes, prince. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/66/) [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/) / 66 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 66 He soon overtook his master and they quickly arrived at the house of the lady the prince sought, who, finding the prince to be a suitor, prepared a splendid banquet for him. **Who acts:** Jack, shoes, prince · **What happens:** overtake, arrive, seek, find, be, prepare · **To what, where:** master, house, lady, prince, suitor, splendid banquet 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 (Jack, shoes, prince), 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:pg7439:23:66 # text = He soon overtook his master and they quickly arrived at the house of the lady the prince sought, who, finding the prince to be a suitor, prepared a splendid banquet for him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 overtook overtake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 suitor suitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overtake** | past | Jack | Jack's master | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **arrive** | past | shoes *= shoe* | | | the house of the lady | | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seek** | past | the prince | the lady *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | | 4 | **find** | gerund | | the prince | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | a suitor | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **prepare** | past | | a splendid banquet | | | | for Jack | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent banquet=Product for he=Beneficiary | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/67/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)