The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 14

That day they had very little dinner, and went sadly to bed, knowing that for the next day there would be none and Jack, unable to sleep from grief and vexation, got up at day-dawn and went out into the garden.

Who acts: beans · What happens: have, go, know, be, sleep, get up · To what, where: little dinner, bed, none, grief, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (beans), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinner	amod
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
11	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	13 bed	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knowing	punct
15	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 went	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 got	mark
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 none	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 none	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 none	cop
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 day	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Jack	cc
26	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 none	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 unable	punct
28	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 none	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 unable	xcomp
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 grief	case
32	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleep	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 vexation	cc
34	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grief	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knowing	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 got	compound:prt
38	at	at	ADP	_	41 dawn	case
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 dawn	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 day	punct
41	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 went	cc
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 got	conj
44	out	out	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 garden	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 garden	det
47	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 went	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	beans = bean	little dinner		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	go	past	beans = bean not said here		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	know	gerund	beans = bean not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is a	would		none	there			tree rules
5	be							tree rules
6	sleep	to-infinitive			grief and vexation			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	get up	past				dawn; day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	go out	past			the garden		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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