--- title: Off poor Jack rides over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, throu… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Off poor Jack rides over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, where the old chap never sounded his hollow bugle-horn, farther than I can tell you to-night or ever intend to tell you. Who acts: mountains, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:26:114 # text = Off poor Jack rides over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, where the old chap never sounded his hollow bugle-horn, farther than I can tell you to-night or ever intend to tell you. 1 Off off ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 rides ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 dales dale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 valleys valley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 13 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sheepwalks sheepwalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 chap chap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 bugle bugle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 farther far ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 34 than than SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 44 intend intend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | present | | | | hills and dales and valleys | | off poor Jack | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent off jack=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **sound** | past | mountains and woolly woods and sheepwalks | Jack's hollow bugle horn | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I | | you | | night | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **intend** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/115/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/)