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title: THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI. Who acts: OLD WOMAN. 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 5

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THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI.

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**Who acts:** OLD WOMAN · **What happens:** go, seek · **To what, where:** FORTUNE

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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: who acts (OLD WOMAN), 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:pg7439:4:5
# text = THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	OLD	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	HER	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	PIG	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	JACK	JACK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	WENT	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	TO	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	SEEK	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	FORTUNE	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the OLD WOMAN and HER PIG |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the OLD WOMAN and HER PIG *not said here* | JACK's FORTUNE |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |

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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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