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title: Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone. Who acts: Jack, room, shutters, hunger. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 63

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Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone.

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**Who acts:** Jack, room, shutters, hunger · **What happens:** get, close, light, eat, drink, be · **To what, where:** room, shutters, candles

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, room, shutters, hunger), 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:pg7885:18:63
# text = Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Jack and Jack's party |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
| 2 | **close** | participle | the room *not said here* | the shutters |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient |
| 3 | **light** | participle | the shutters *not said here* | the candles |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product |
| 4 | **eat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | hunger and thirst |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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