The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 49
His father was much vexed at this news, for he thought Jack had died long ago.
Who acts: father, Jack · What happens: vex, think, die · To what, where: father, news · 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 (father, Jack), 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 | 5 vexed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 vexed | advmod |
| 5 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vexed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | conj |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 died | aux |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 ago | advmod |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 died | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | Jack's father | this news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | father | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | past · perfect | Jack | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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