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title: On Friday, Lazy Jack again went out, and hired himself to a baker, w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On Friday, Lazy Jack again went out, and hired himself to a baker, who would give him nothing for his work but a large tom-cat. Who acts: Lazy Jack, baker, Jack. 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 17

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On Friday, Lazy Jack again went out, and hired himself to a baker, who would give him nothing for his work but a large tom-cat.

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**Who acts:** Lazy Jack, baker, Jack · **What happens:** go out, hire, give, work · **To what, where:** Jack, nothing

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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 (Lazy Jack, baker, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:1370`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:34:17
# text = On Friday, Lazy Jack again went out, and hired himself to a baker, who would give him nothing for his work but a large tom-cat.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lazy	Lazy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	but	but	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Lazy Jack |  |  |  | again; friday |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hire** | past | Lazy Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  | to a baker | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | would | a baker | nothing | Jack |  |  | but a large tom cat; for Jack's work | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme for work=Asset |
| 4 | **work** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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