More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 64
Off Jack goes, over hills, dales, valleys, and mountains, and very near losing his apples again.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go, lose · To what, where: hills, apples
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 goes | mark |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dales | punct |
| 8 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hills | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 valleys | punct |
| 10 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hills | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mountains | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mountains | cc |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hills | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 losing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 losing | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 losing | advmod |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 losing | mark |
| 18 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 goes | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 apples | nmod:poss |
| 20 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 losing | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 losing | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Jack | hills and dales and valleys and mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack's apples | again | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Eventuality |
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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