The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 19
His father, who was delighted at the prospect of getting rid of him, had the cock shod, and when it was ready Jack my Hedgehog mounted on its back and rode off to the forest, followed by all the pigs and asses which he had promised to look after.
Who acts: father, prospect, cock, bagpipe · What happens: be, get, have, shoe, mount, ride off · To what, where: prospect, ready Jack, back, forest, pigs
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 (father, prospect, cock, bagpipe), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 father | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 prospect | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prospect | det |
| 9 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 prospect | acl |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cock | det |
| 18 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shod | nsubj |
| 19 | shod | shoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mounted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mounted | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 mounted | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Jack | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Jack | cop |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Jack | amod |
| 26 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mounted | nmod:poss |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Jack | appos |
| 29 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 had | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mounted | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rode | cc |
| 34 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 mounted | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 rode | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 forest | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 forest | det |
| 38 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rode | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 followed | punct |
| 40 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 mounted | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 pigs | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 pigs | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pigs | det |
| 44 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 followed | obl:agent |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 asses | cc |
| 46 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 pigs | conj |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 promised | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 promised | aux |
| 50 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 pigs | acl:relcl |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 look | mark |
| 52 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 promised | xcomp |
| 53 | after | after | ADV | _ | 52 look | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack's father | the prospect | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | the prospect not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Jack's father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shoe | past | the cock | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | bagpipe | ready Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mount | participle | Jack's father not said here | bagpipe's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | ||||
| 7 | ride off | past | Jack's father not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | follow | participle | Jack's father not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | all pigs and asses | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | after property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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