More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 129
Well, Jack went back home for a week, and thought over whether he should try and win the princess.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go back, think, try, win · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 home | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 week | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 17 try | mark |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 try | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 try | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | aux |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 win | cc |
| 19 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 win | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Jack | week | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Jack not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | should | Jack | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | win | infinitive | Jack not said here | the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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