English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 49

Now poor Jack goes in search of his missing castle, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, through woolly woods and sheepwalks, further than I can tell you or ever intend to tell you.

Who acts: poor Jack, I · What happens: go, tell, intend, search · To what, where: mountains, search, you, missing castle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor Jack, I), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 poor	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Jack	amod
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 search	case
6	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 castle	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 castle	nmod:poss
9	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 castle	amod
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hills	punct
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 hills	case
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 goes	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dales	punct
15	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hills	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 valleys	punct
17	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hills	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mountains	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mountains	cc
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 goes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 woods	punct
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 woods	case
23	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woods	amod
24	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 goes	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sheepwalks	cc
26	sheepwalks	sheepwalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 woods	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
28	further	further	ADV	_	32 tell	advmod
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 intend	cc
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 intend	advmod
36	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 tell	mark
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 intend	conj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	poor Jack	mountains		search of Jack's missing castle		over hills and dales and valleys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	can	I		you			further property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	intend	infinitive	I not said here				ever		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	search			Jack's missing castle					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

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