More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 120
"From a nut," answered Jack, pulling out the nut from his pocket. "
Who acts: Jack · What happens: answer, pull out · To what, where: nut, pocket
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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 nut | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nut | det |
| 4 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nut | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nut | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulling | punct |
| 10 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pulling | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nut | det |
| 13 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulling | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulling | obl | ||
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jack | a nut | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pull out | gerund | Jack not said here | the nut | Jack's pocket | 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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