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title: JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX XVIII. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX XVIII. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 17

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JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX XVIII.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:4:17
# text = JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX XVIII.
1	JACK	JACK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	GOLDEN	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	SNUFF	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	BOX	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	XVIII	xviii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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