More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 118
"With a crooked stick," replied Jack, producing the hazel.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: reply, produce · To what, where: hazel
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 stick | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stick | det |
| 4 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stick | amod |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 producing | punct |
| 11 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 replied | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hazel | det |
| 13 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 producing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jack | with a crooked stick | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with stick=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | produce | gerund | Jack not said here | the hazel | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hazel=Result |
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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