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title: Jack, unused to such fare, ate and drank plentifully, so that he was… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack, unused to such fare, ate and drank plentifully, so that he was nearly dozing before midnight. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 136

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Jack, unused to such fare, ate and drank plentifully, so that he was nearly dozing before midnight.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** eat, drink, doze

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. 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:pg14241:33:136
# text = Jack, unused to such fare, ate and drank plentifully, so that he was nearly dozing before midnight.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	unused	unused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dozing	doze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | past | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | plentifully *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **doze** | past · progressive | Jack |  |  |  | midnight | nearly *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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