--- title: And away went poor Jack upon his road, and walked till he was tired… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And away went poor Jack upon his road, and walked till he was tired and hungry, for he had eaten all his cake upon the road; and by this time night was upon him, so he could hardly see his way before him. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/14/) [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/) / [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/) / 14 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 14 And away went poor Jack upon his road, and walked till he was tired and hungry, for he had eaten all his cake upon the road; and by this time night was upon him, so he could hardly see his way before him. **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** go, walk, be, eat, see · **To what, where:** poor Jack, cake, way This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg7439:20:14 # text = And away went poor Jack upon his road, and walked till he was tired and hungry, for he had eaten all his cake upon the road; and by this time night was upon him, so he could hardly see his way before him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 before before ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | poor Jack | | | | upon Jack's road; away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jack=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Jack | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Jack *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | past · perfect | Jack | Jack's cake | | | | upon the road | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | night | upon Jack | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | could | Jack | Jack's way | | | before lad | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/15/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)