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title: And six stout fellows saw himself and the master home, and waited in… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And six stout fellows saw himself and the master home, and waited in the parlour while he went up and brought down the two hundred guineas, and double wages for Jack himself. Who acts: six stout fellows, Jack. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its depende
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 147

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And six stout fellows saw himself and the master home, and waited in the parlour while he went up and brought down the two hundred guineas, and double wages for Jack himself.

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**Who acts:** six stout fellows, Jack · **What happens:** see, wait, go up, bring down · **To what, where:** Jack, parlour, hundred guineas

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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 (six stout fellows, Jack), 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:pg7885:24:147
# text = And six stout fellows saw himself and the master home, and waited in the parlour while he went up and brought down the two hundred guineas, and double wages for Jack himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | six stout fellows | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wait** | past | six stout fellows *not said here* |  |  | the parlour |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parlour=Location |
| 3 | **go up** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **bring down** | participle | Jack *not said here* | the hundred guineas |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent guinea=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:** «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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