The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 6

Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was on the way, he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand.

Who acts: Jack, boy, butcher · What happens: like, go, sell, be, meet, have · To what, where: market, cow, way, butcher, beautiful beans, hand

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, boy, butcher), 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 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 liked	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 market	mark
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	7 sell	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 met	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 met	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 way	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 way	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 way	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 met	nsubj
22	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 liked	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 butcher	det
24	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 butcher	acl:relcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 beans	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 beans	amod
29	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beans	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	past	Jack			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	gerund	Jack not said here	market		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sell	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the cow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	is	past	boy		the way	tree rules
5	meet	past	boy	a butcher		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Co-Agent
6	have	past	a butcher	some beautiful beans	boy's hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=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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