The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 20

Having reached the forest he made the cock fly up to the top of a very tall tree with him, and there he sat looking after his pigs and donkeys, and he sat on and on for several years till he had quite a big herd; but all this time his father knew nothing about him.

Who acts: cock, time · What happens: have, reach, make, fly up, sit, look · To what, where: forest, big herd, nothing

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 (cock, time), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 reached	reparandum
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	nsubj
9	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 fly	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 tall	advmod
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tree	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 sat	expl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sat	advcl
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 pigs	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pigs	nmod:poss
29	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looking	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 donkeys	cc
31	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pigs	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sat	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 sat	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 on	cc
38	on	on	ADV	_	36 on	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 years	case
40	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 years	amod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sat	obl
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sat	advcl
45	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	48 herd	det:predet
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 herd	det
47	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 herd	amod
48	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 knew	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 knew	cc
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 time	det
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 time	det
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 knew	nsubj
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 father	nmod:poss
55	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 time	nmod
56	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
57	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	56 knew	obj
58	about	about	ADP	_	59 him	case
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 nothing	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	cock not said here	the forest				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
3	make	past	cock					tree rules
4	fly up	present	the cock				to the top of a tall tree with Jack result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result
5	sit	past	cock		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	gerund	cock not said here			after cock's pigs and donkeys		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	sit	past	cock			year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	past	cock	quite big herd				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient
9	know	past	all time cock's father	nothing			about cock	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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