--- title: A lad named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's il… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A lad named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's ill-treatment, that he made up his mind to run away and seek his fortune in the wide world. Who acts: lad, Jack, father. 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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 (lad, Jack, father), 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:pg7439:45:1 # text = A lad named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's ill-treatment, that he made up his mind to run away and seek his fortune in the wide world. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | participle | a lad *not said here* | Jack | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a lad | | | home | | through Jack's father's ill treatment; once, unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make up** | past | Jack | Jack's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 4 | **run away** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **seek** | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | Jack's fortune | | the wide world | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in world=Location | | 6 | **treat** | | Jack's father | | | | | | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **mind** | | Jack | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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: [The Cauld Lad of Hilton, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/21/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/2/) - ↑ back to [The Ass, the Table, and the Stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/)