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title: Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this cast… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land. Who acts: Jack, perpendicular rock, castle. A sentence
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 9

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Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land.

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**Who acts:** Jack, perpendicular rock, castle · **What happens:** wonder, not hear, see, reflect, separate, stand · **To what, where:** castle, perpendicular rock

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, perpendicular rock, castle), 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:pg540:16:9
# text = Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	perpendicular	perpendicular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | participle | Jack *not said here* | this castle |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **reflect** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | on the subject | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on subject=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **separate** | past · passive | the perpendicular rock | castle |  |  |  | from the village | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from village=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **stand** | past | castle |  |  | the perpendicular rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | castle |  |  |  |  | as another land | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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