--- title: And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times as long this time as it was the first day; however, he found the place, and there was a fine bird on sentry. Who acts: Jack, journey. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/77/) [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/) / 77 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 77 And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times as long this time as it was the first day; however, he found the place, and there was a fine bird on sentry. **Who acts:** Jack, journey · **What happens:** go, be, find, journey · **To what, where:** great long journey, three times, first day, place, fine bird, sentry 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, journey), 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:pg7439:20:77 # text = And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times as long this time as it was the first day; however, he found the place, and there was a fine bird on sentry. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 however however ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 sentry sentry NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Jack | | | Jack's great long journey | again; time | away, long *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | | 2 | **is a** | past | journey | three times | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | journey | the first day | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | past | Jack | the place | | | | however *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | past | | a fine bird | | sentry | | | tree rules | | 6 | **journey** | | Jack | | | | | | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/78/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)