More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 123
Poor Jack didn't know what to make of this, but, however, he ventured to go to bed.
Who acts: Poor Jack, Jack · What happens: not know, make, venture, go · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Jack, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jack | amod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 make | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 make | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ventured | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ventured | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 14 | however | however | ADV | _ | 17 ventured | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 however | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ventured | nsubj |
| 17 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ventured | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Poor Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | of this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product | |||||
| 3 | venture | past | Jack | however property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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