The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 50

Jack my Hedgehog mounted his cock, and driving his pigs before him into the village, he let every one kill as many as they chose, and such a hacking and hewing of pork went on as you might have heard for miles off.

Who acts: you, Hedgehog, Jack, pigs, hacking · What happens: jack, mount, drive, let, choose, go on · To what, where: cock, pigs, village, one kill

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 (you, Hedgehog, Jack, pigs), 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	Jack	jack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Hedgehog	nmod:poss
3	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	nsubj
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Jack	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cock	nmod:poss
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
9	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 let	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pigs	nmod:poss
11	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 driving	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 driving	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driving	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 driving	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Jack	parataxis
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 kill	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kill	compound
22	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 let	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 chose	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 chose	nsubj
27	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 many	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 hacking	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hacking	det
32	hacking	hacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hewing	cc
34	hewing	hewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hacking	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pork	case
36	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hewing	nmod
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 let	conj
38	on	on	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 heard	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 heard	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 heard	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 heard	aux
43	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 went	advcl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 miles	case
45	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 heard	obl
46	off	off	ADV	_	45 miles	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jack	imperative	you not said here					tree rules
2	mount	past	my Hedgehog	Jack's cock				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient
3	drive	gerund	Jack not said here	Jack's pigs	the village	before Jack		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme before he=Destination into village=Initial_Location
4	let	past	Jack	every one kill				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kill=Recipient many=Theme
5	choose	past	pigs = pig					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	go on	past	such hacking and hewing of pork					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	might · perfect	you				for miles	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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