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title: About noon, he went to see how Jack was doing his duty, and what did… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: About noon, he went to see how Jack was doing his duty, and what did he find but Jack asleep with his face to the sod, Browney grazing near a thorn-tree, one end of a long rope round her horns, and the other end round the tree, and the rest of the beasts all trampling and eating the green wheat. Who
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 68

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About noon, he went to see how Jack was doing his duty, and what did he find but Jack asleep with his face to the sod, Browney grazing near a thorn-tree, one end of a long rope round her horns, and the other end round the tree, and the rest of the beasts all trampling and eating the green wheat.

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**Who acts:** Jack, Browney, rest · **What happens:** go, see, do, find, graze, trampling · **To what, where:** other end, duty, one end, thorn tree, green wheat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Browney, rest), 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:pg7885:24:68
# text = About noon, he went to see how Jack was doing his duty, and what did he find but Jack asleep with his face to the sod, Browney grazing near a thorn-tree, one end of a long rope round her horns, and the other end round the tree, and the rest of the beasts all trampling and eating the green wheat.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sod	sod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Browney	Browney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	round	round	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
52	round	round	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
62	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
63	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	conj	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Jack | the other end round the tree and all trampling |  |  | noon |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past · progressive | Jack | Jack's duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | past · do-support | Jack |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **graze** | gerund | Browney | one end of a long rope |  | a thorn tree |  | round Browney's horns | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **trampling** |  | the rest of the beasts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **eat** | gerund | the rest of the beasts *not said here* | the green wheat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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