--- title: Well, they went on till it was about dark, and they began to think o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, they went on till it was about dark, and they began to think of some place where they could spend the night. Who acts: jolt, fortune. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/32/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/) / 32 # English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 32 Well, they went on till it was about dark, and they began to think of some place where they could spend the night. **Who acts:** jolt, fortune · **What happens:** go on, be, begin, think, spend This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jolt, fortune), 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:pg7439:10:32 # text = Well, they went on till it was about dark, and they began to think of some place where they could spend the night. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 till till SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | jolt | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | fortune | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | jolt | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | jolt *not said here* | | | | | of some place | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spend** | could | jolt | | | | night | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/33/) - ↑ back to [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/)