More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 89
Jubal, after he pulled off his hairy coat, was one of the finest young men amongst them, and he was the young Prince's closest companion.
Who acts: Jubal · What happens: pull off, be · To what, where: hairy coat, one, closest companion
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 (Jubal), 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 | Jubal | Jubal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jubal | punct |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 pulled | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 coat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coat | amod |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pulled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 men | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 18 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 men | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 companion | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 companion | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 companion | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 companion | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Prince | amod |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 companion | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Prince | case |
| 28 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 companion | amod |
| 29 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | past | Jubal | Jubal's hairy coat | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | one | of the finest young men amongst tents | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Jubal | the young Prince's closest companion | 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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