The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 9
Jack was amazed to see them pick the bones of the bullock as if it had been a lark.
Who acts: Jack, bones, bullock · What happens: be, see, pick · To what, where: bones, lark
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, bones, bullock), 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 | 3 amazed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amazed | cop |
| 3 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 amazed | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bones | det |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pick | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bullock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bullock | det |
| 12 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bones | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 lark | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 lark | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lark | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lark | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 lark | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lark | det |
| 19 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pick | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | bones = bone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pick | infinitive | bones = bone not said here | the bones of the bullock | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | bullock | a lark | 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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