More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 8
Jack was again in difficulties, for he couldn't get out, but he soon found a way out of them.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: be, not get out, find · To what, where: difficulties, way
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 difficulties | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficulties | cop |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 difficulties | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 difficulties | case |
| 5 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 difficulties | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 found | advmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficulties | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack | difficulties | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get out | could | Jack | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Jack | a way | out difficulties = difficulty; soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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