The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 18
When Jack had got his bagpipes he said, ‘Daddy, do go to the smithy and have the house cock shod for me; then I’ll ride off and trouble you no more.’
Who acts: Jack, house cock, I · What happens: get, say, go, have, shoe, ride off · To what, where: bagpipes, smithy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, house cock, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bagpipes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Daddy | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 11 Daddy | case |
| 11 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 Daddy | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 smithy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 smithy | det |
| 17 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cock | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cock | compound |
| 22 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shod | nsubj |
| 23 | shod | shoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 shod | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ride | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 ride | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 ride | nsubj |
| 29 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ride | aux |
| 30 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 ride | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 trouble | cc |
| 33 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ride | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 trouble | appos |
| 35 | no | no | ADV | _ | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 you | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 ride | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Jack | Jack's bagpipes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bagpipe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive · do-support | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | shoe | past | the house cock | for me | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | ride off | future | I | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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