The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 18
And, having thought of the experiment, he at once resolved to carry it out, for Jack was a good climber.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, resolve, carry out, be, think · To what, where: thought, easy, experiment
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 having | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 experiment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 experiment | det |
| 7 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 resolved | mark |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 resolved | advmod |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carry | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 climber | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 climber | case |
| 19 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 climber | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 climber | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 climber | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 climber | amod |
| 23 | climber | climber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thought of the experiment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||||
| 2 | resolve | participle · passive | easy | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry out | to-infinitive | thought | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Jack | for a good climber | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think | the experiment | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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