More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 142
The old man told him to jump up quick, and said that he had made it all right with his eldest brother, not to delay for anything whatever, "For," said he, "you have a good deal to go through with in a very short and quick time."
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: tell, jump up, say, make, not delay, have · To what, where: Jack, horse, good deal · 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 (old man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 jump | mark |
| 7 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 jump | advmod |
| 9 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 7 jump | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 right | advmod |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 brother | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 brother | amod |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 delay | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 delay | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 delay | mark |
| 27 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 anything | case |
| 29 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 delay | obl |
| 30 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 anything | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 whatever | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 whatever | punct |
| 33 | For | for | ADP | _ | 30 whatever | case |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 delay | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 delay | punct |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 he | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | ccomp |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 deal | det |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 deal | amod |
| 44 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 go | mark |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 deal | acl |
| 47 | through | through | ADV | _ | 46 go | advmod |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 time | case |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 time | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 time | det |
| 51 | very | very | ADV | _ | 52 short | advmod |
| 52 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 time | amod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 quick | cc |
| 54 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 short | conj |
| 55 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man | Jack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | jump up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | man | horse | with man's eldest brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 5 | not delay | to-infinitive | for anything | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | man | a good deal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go through in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | a good deal not said here | time | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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