--- title: And off they went, and were not long before they reached their journ… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And off they went, and were not long before they reached their journey's end, when out comes the young wife to meet him with a fine lump of a young SON, and they all lived happy ever afterwards. Who acts: man. 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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 (man), 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:pg7439:20:119 # text = And off they went, and were not long before they reached their journey's end, when out comes the young wife to meet him with a fine lump of a young SON, and they all lived happy ever afterwards. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 off off ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 SON SON PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 39 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 40 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | man | | | | | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **reach** | past | man | man's journey's end | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | present | man *not said here* | the young wife | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wife=Result | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | Jack | | | | with a fine lump of a young SON | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with lump=Instrument | | 6 | **live** | past | man | | | | | afterwards, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **journey** | | man | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/118/) - next →: [The Story of the Three Bears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/1/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)