The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 13
So he took a piece of stick, and made some holes in the ground, and put in the beans.
Who acts: hope · What happens: take, make, put · To what, where: piece, holes, ground, beans
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stick | case |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 holes | det |
| 12 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 beans | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beans | det |
| 21 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | hope | a piece of stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | hope not said here | some holes | the ground | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | put | participle | hope not said here | the beans | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bean=Destination |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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