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title: Off Jack goes, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, and very n… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Off Jack goes, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, and very near losing his apples again. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 64

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Off Jack goes, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, and very near losing his apples again.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** go, lose · **To what, where:** hills, apples

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:27:64
# text = Off Jack goes, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, and very near losing his apples again.
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Jack |  |  | hills and dales and valleys and mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | Jack's apples |  |  | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Eventuality |

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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:** «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.

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