The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 4
Jack did no work as yet, and by degrees they grew dreadfully poor.
Who acts: Jack, degrees · What happens: do, grow · To what, where: work
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, degrees), 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 yet | case |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 degrees | case |
| 10 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 13 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 14 poor | advmod |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jack | no work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | degrees = degree | by degrees; poor property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by degree=Location |
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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