--- title: Now poor Jack leaves his castle behind and faces towards home; and a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now poor Jack leaves his castle behind and faces towards home; and after having so much merriment with the three brothers every night, Jack became sleepy on horseback, and would have lost the road if it was not for the little men a-guiding him. Who acts: poor Jack, Jack, castle, little men. 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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, Jack, castle, little men), 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:pg7439:20:114 # text = Now poor Jack leaves his castle behind and faces towards home; and after having so much merriment with the three brothers every night, Jack became sleepy on horseback, and would have lost the road if it was not for the little men a-guiding him. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 behind behind ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 merriment merriment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 26 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 horseback horseback NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ _ 35 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 guiding guide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | poor Jack | Jack's castle | | | now | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 2 | **face** | present | poor Jack *not said here* | | | | | towards home | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | much merriment | | | night | with the three brothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merriment=Patient | | 4 | **become** | past | Jack | | | horseback | | sleepy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lose** | would · perfect | Jack *not said here* | the road | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | castle | | | | | for the little men | tree rules | | 7 | **guide** | gerund | the little men *not said here* | Jack | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/115/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)