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title: So on Thursday, Jack hired himself again to a farmer, who agreed to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So on Thursday, Jack hired himself again to a farmer, who agreed to give him a cream cheese for his services. Who acts: Jack, farmer. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 12

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So on Thursday, Jack hired himself again to a farmer, who agreed to give him a cream cheese for his services.

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**Who acts:** Jack, farmer · **What happens:** hire, agree, give, service · **To what, where:** Jack, cream cheese

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, farmer), 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:pg7439:34:12
# text = So on Thursday, Jack hired himself again to a farmer, who agreed to give him a cream cheese for his services.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past | Jack | Jack |  |  | again; thursday | to a farmer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | a farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a farmer *not said here* | a cream cheese | Jack |  |  | for Jack's services | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cheese=Theme for service=Asset |
| 4 | **service** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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