The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 2

Jack was a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kind-hearted and affectionate.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: be · To what, where: giddy thoughtless boy

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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 giddy	punct
6	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hearted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 hearted	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	13 hearted	advmod
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hearted	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
13	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 affectionate	cc
15	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hearted	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Jack	a giddy thoughtless boy					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: «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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