---
title: "Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing well begun is half done. Who acts: Everything, Jack. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/105/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/) / 105

# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 105

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing well begun is half done.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Everything, Jack · **What happens:** have, say, begin, do · **To what, where:** beginning, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:24:105
# text = "Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing well begun is half done.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	advmod	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | must | Everything | a beginning and master |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | participle |  | a thing *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | a thing |  |  |  | half *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/104/)
- next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/106/)
- ↑ back to [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/)