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title: Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dale… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, further than I can tell you or ever intend to tell you. Who acts: poor Jack, I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, wit
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 49

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Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, further than I can tell you or ever intend to tell you.

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**Who acts:** poor Jack, I · **What happens:** go, tell, intend, search · **To what, where:** mountains, search, you, missing castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poor Jack, I), 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:pg7439:20:49
# text = Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, further than I can tell you or ever intend to tell you.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sheepwalks	sheepwalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	further	further	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	intend	intend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | poor Jack | mountains |  | search of Jack's missing castle |  | over hills and dales and valleys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  | you |  |  | further *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **intend** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | Jack's missing castle |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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.

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