--- title: His mother could not get him to do anything for her, and at last tol… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: His mother could not get him to do anything for her, and at last told him, one Monday, that if he did not begin to work for his porridge she would turn him out to get his living as he could. Who acts: mother, Jack. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Jack), 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:pg7439:34:4 # text = His mother could not get him to do anything for her, and at last told him, one Monday, that if he did not begin to work for his porridge she would turn him out to get his living as he could. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 20 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** | could | Jack's mother | Jack | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | anything | | | | for mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jack's mother *not said here* | one Monday | Jack | last | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **begin** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | Jack | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **work** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **turn out** | would | mother | Jack | | | | for Jack's porridge | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Result for porridge=Beneficiary | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | Jack's living | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus | | 8 | **live** | | Jack | | | | | | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/5/) - ↑ back to [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/)