The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 25
On this Jack my Hedgehog stepped down from his tree and said he would undertake to show the King his way home if the King on his part would give him his written promise to let him have whatever first met him on his return.
Who acts: Hedgehog, Jack, King · What happens: step down, say, undertake, show, give, write · To what, where: Jack, King, written promise, whatever, return · 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 (Hedgehog, Jack, King), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Jack | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Jack | det |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 stepped | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tree | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stepped | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 undertake | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 undertake | aux |
| 15 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 undertake | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 show | advmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 give | nsubj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 part | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 part | nmod:poss |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 King | nmod |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 give | aux |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 show | ccomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 give | iobj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 promise | nmod:poss |
| 33 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 promise | amod |
| 34 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 let | mark |
| 36 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 promise | acl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 let | obj |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 let | xcomp |
| 39 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 met | obj |
| 40 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 met | advmod |
| 41 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | ccomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 met | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 return | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 return | nmod:poss |
| 45 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 met | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | my Hedgehog | this Jack | from Jack's tree | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my Hedgehog not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | undertake | would | Jack | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the King | home property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | the King on King's part | King's written promise | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient promise=Theme | |||
| 6 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | let | to-infinitive | the King on King's part not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have | infinitive | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | meet | past | King not said here | whatever | King's return | first property | tree rules | ||
| 10 | promise | King | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | return | King | nom return «communication 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 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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