More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 73
Now there was a little hole in the wall rather high up, and Jack's wife tried to reach up into a chest there after "crooked and straight," but at last she asked the king's son to help her, because his arms were longest.
Who acts: little hole, wife, arms · What happens: be, try, reach up, ask, help · To what, where: chest, son, wife · 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 (little hole, wife, arms), 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 | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 wall | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Jack | case |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tried | nsubj |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reach | mark |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 reach | compound:prt |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 chest | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chest | det |
| 24 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reach | obl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 reach | advmod |
| 26 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 28 crooked | mark |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 crooked | punct |
| 28 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reach | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 straight | cc |
| 30 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crooked | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 crooked | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 crooked | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 last | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crooked | conj |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 asked | nsubj |
| 37 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 last | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 asked | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 help | mark |
| 43 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 asked | ccomp |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 help | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 were | punct |
| 46 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 49 were | mark |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 arms | nmod:poss |
| 48 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 were | nsubj |
| 49 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | conj |
| 50 | longest | long | ADV | Degree=Sup | 49 were | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little hole in the wall | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | Jack's wife | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack's wife not said here | a chest; there | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into chest=Path | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | wife | the king's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | be | past | hole's arms | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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