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title: So Jack without knowing that any change had been made, rode away nex… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Jack without knowing that any change had been made, rode away next morning to his father's house. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 11

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So Jack without knowing that any change had been made, rode away next morning to his father's house.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** know, make, ride away · **To what, where:** change, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. 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.

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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:pg7439:45:11
# text = So Jack without knowing that any change had been made, rode away next morning to his father's house.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | any change |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **ride away** | past | Jack |  |  | Jack's father's house | morning | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to house=Trajectory |

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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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