More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 49

But Jack looked ahead and there was a long road before them, and he said, "I don't see, father, how I could break a bit off."

Who acts: Jack, long road · What happens: look, be, say, not see, break off · To what, where: father, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, long road), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 was	cc
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 break	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 break	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 break	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 break	aux
29	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 break	obj
32	off	off	ADP	_	29 break	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Jack				ahead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	be	past	a long road		there	before others = other		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Jack					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not see in a quote	present · do-support	Jack	father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
5	break off in a quote	could	Jack	a bit				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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