The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 9
He was very sorry, and mother and son went to bed very sadly that night; their last hope seemed gone.
Who acts: butcher, mother, last hope, beans · What happens: be, go, seem, hope · To what, where: bed
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 (butcher, mother, last hope, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 sadly | advmod |
| 14 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hope | nmod:poss |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hope | amod |
| 20 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 22 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | butcher | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | mother and son | bed | night | sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | seem | past | beans's last hope | gone property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hope | beans = bean | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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