More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 147
Jack served the giant seven years, and never was allowed a holiday the whole time.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: serve, not allow · To what, where: holiday
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. 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.
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 served | nsubj |
| 2 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 served | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 allowed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 allowed | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 allowed | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 served | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 holiday | det |
| 13 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allowed | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allowed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | Jack | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not allow | past · passive | Jack not said here | a holiday | time | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: holiday=Beneficiary |
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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