More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 10
So Jack killed the dog, skinned it, and threw the hide over his back.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: kill, skin, throw · To what, where: dog, hide, back
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 killed | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skinned | punct |
| 7 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skinned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hide | det |
| 13 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Jack | the dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | skin | past | Jack not said here | dog | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Jack not said here | the hide | Jack's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hide=Theme over back=Destination |
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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