The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 52
So the father had the cock shod, and rejoiced at the idea of getting rid of his son.
Who acts: father, cock, idea · What happens: have, shoe, rejoice, get · To what, where: idea
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, cock, idea), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cock | det |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shod | nsubj |
| 7 | shod | shoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoiced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rejoiced | cc |
| 10 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shod | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 idea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rejoiced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 idea | acl |
| 16 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 getting | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shoe | past | the cock | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | participle | the cock not said here | the idea | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | the idea not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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