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title: This young lady happened to be looking out of the window when Jack w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This young lady happened to be looking out of the window when Jack was passing with the donkey on his shoulders, with the legs sticking up in the air, and the sight was so comical and strange that she burst out into a great fit of laughter, and immediately recovered her speech and hearing. Who acts:
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# English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 30

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This young lady happened to be looking out of the window when Jack was passing with the donkey on his shoulders, with the legs sticking up in the air, and the sight was so comical and strange that she burst out into a great fit of laughter, and immediately recovered her speech and hearing.

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**Who acts:** young lady, Jack, legs, sight, lady · **What happens:** happen, look out, pass, stick up, be, burst out · **To what, where:** window, shoulders, air, great fit, speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young lady, Jack, legs, sight), 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:pg7439:34:30
# text = This young lady happened to be looking out of the window when Jack was passing with the donkey on his shoulders, with the legs sticking up in the air, and the sight was so comical and strange that she burst out into a great fit of laughter, and immediately recovered her speech and hearing.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	comical	comical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this young lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | to-infinitive · progressive | this young lady *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past · progressive | Jack |  |  | donkey's shoulders |  | with the donkey | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location |
| 4 | **stick up** | gerund | the legs |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in air=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | the sight |  |  |  |  | comical *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **burst out** | past | lady |  |  | a great fit of laughter |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **recover** | past | lady *not said here* | lady's speech and hearing |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme |
| 9 | **speak** |  | lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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