--- title: Jack remained for some hours in hiding, thankful to be safe from his… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Jack remained for some hours in hiding, thankful to be safe from his tormentors; but when no one came to trouble him, and his back did not ache so much, he began to think what he had better do. Who acts: Jack, one, back. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/) / 6 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 6 Jack remained for some hours in hiding, thankful to be safe from his tormentors; but when no one came to trouble him, and his back did not ache so much, he began to think what he had better do. **Who acts:** Jack, one, back · **What happens:** remain, be, come, not ache, begin, think · **To what, where:** hiding, tormentors, better do · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Jack, one, back), 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:pg3027:20:6 # text = Jack remained for some hours in hiding, thankful to be safe from his tormentors; but when no one came to trouble him, and his back did not ache so much, he began to think what he had better do. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 thankful thankful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tormentors tormentor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 ache ache VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 obj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 42 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 amod _ _ 43 do do NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remain** | past | Jack | | | hiding | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hiding=Location | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | Jack's tormentors | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | no one | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **ache** | past · do-support | Jack's back | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **begin** | past | Jack | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | Jack | better do | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/20/)