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title: And poor Jack ran weeping into the woods. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And poor Jack ran weeping into the woods. Who acts: poor Jack. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 4

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And poor Jack ran weeping into the woods.

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**Who acts:** poor Jack · **What happens:** run, weep · **To what, where:** woods

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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:pg3027:20:4
# text = And poor Jack ran weeping into the woods.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | poor Jack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | poor Jack *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into wood=Recipient |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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