--- title: Which she did, and Jack, when she was not standing by, cut off Lucif… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Which she did, and Jack, when she was not standing by, cut off Lucifer's head and brought it under his invisible coat to his master, who the next morning pulled it out by the horns before the lady. Who acts: cap, master. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/79/) [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/) / 79 # English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 79 Which she did, and Jack, when she was not standing by, cut off Lucifer's head and brought it under his invisible coat to his master, who the next morning pulled it out by the horns before the lady. **Who acts:** cap, master · **What happens:** do, not stand, cut off, bring, pull out · **To what, where:** Jack, head, handkerchief, invisible coat 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 (cap, master), 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:pg7439:23:79 # text = Which she did, and Jack, when she was not standing by, cut off Lucifer's head and brought it under his invisible coat to his master, who the next morning pulled it out by the horns before the lady. 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 obj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 Lucifer Lucifer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 41 before before ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | cap | Jack | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **stand** | past · progressive | cap | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cut off** | infinitive | cap *not said here* | Lucifer's head | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 4 | **bring** | past | cap *not said here* | handkerchief | | Lucifer's invisible coat | | to Lucifer's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to master=Destination | | 5 | **pull out** | past | Lucifer's master | handkerchief | | | before the lady; morning | by the horns | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/80/) - ↑ back to [Jack the Giant-killer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/23/)