--- title: Now Jack, after wishing good morning to the King and pocketing the l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now Jack, after wishing good morning to the King and pocketing the little mouse which was on sentry, trudged on his way; and such a long way he had to go and this was his first day. Who acts: Jack, little mouse, long way, this. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/69/) [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/) / 69 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 69 Now Jack, after wishing good morning to the King and pocketing the little mouse which was on sentry, trudged on his way; and such a long way he had to go and this was his first day. **Who acts:** Jack, little mouse, long way, this · **What happens:** wish, pocket, be, trudge, have, go · **To what, where:** little mouse, sentry, way, long way, first day 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, little mouse, long way, this), 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:pg7439:20:69 # text = Now Jack, after wishing good morning to the King and pocketing the little mouse which was on sentry, trudged on his way; and such a long way he had to go and this was his first day. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wishing wish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pocketing pocket VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sentry sentry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 trudged trudge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 30 det:predet _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 amod _ _ 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | | | | morning | to the King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **pocket** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | the little mouse | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the little mouse | | | sentry | | | tree rules | | 4 | **trudge** | participle | | sentry *not said here* | | Jack's way | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory | | 5 | **have** | past | Jack | such long way and Jack's first day *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | such long way and Jack's first day *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | this | Jack's first day | | | | | tree rules | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/70/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)