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title: Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on the coat of darkness,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on the coat of darkness, went up close to the giant, and said softly: “Oh! are you there? Who acts: Jack, putting, 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 84

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Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on the coat of darkness, went up close to the giant, and said softly: “Oh! are you there?

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**Who acts:** Jack, putting, you · **What happens:** alight, put, go up, say, be · **To what, where:** coat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jack, putting, 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:pg7439:23:84
# text = Jack alighted from his horse, and, putting on the coat of darkness, went up close to the giant, and said softly: “Oh! are you there?
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alight** | participle | Jack |  |  |  |  | from Jack's horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | gerund |  |  |  | the coat of darkness |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination |
| 3 | **go up** | past | putting |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | putting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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