More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 44

And before you could say Jack Robinson, there the goodman sat and his nose was the longer for a noble link of black pudding.

Who acts: you, goodman, nose · What happens: say, sit, be · To what, where: Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, goodman, nose), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sat	advcl
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	Robinson	Robinson	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Jack	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 sat	expl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 goodman	det
11	goodman	goodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 longer	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nose	nmod:poss
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 longer	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 longer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 longer	det
18	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 sat	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 link	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 link	det
21	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 link	amod
22	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 longer	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pudding	case
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pudding	amod
25	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 link	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	you	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=Topic
2	sit	past	the goodman		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	goodman's nose			for a noble link of black pudding; long property	tree rules

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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