The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 62
Then Jack my Hedgehog rode on with his cock and bagpipes to the country of the second King to whom he had shown the way.
Who acts: you, Hedgehog, King · What happens: jack, ride on, bagpipe, show · To what, where: way
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | jack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Jack | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cock | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cock | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bagpipes | cc |
| 11 | bagpipes | bagpipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bagpipes | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 King | amod |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 country | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bagpipes | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shown | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shown | aux |
| 23 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shown | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jack | imperative | you not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride on | past | my Hedgehog | with King's cock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bagpipe | present | my Hedgehog not said here | to the country of the second King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | past · perfect | King | the way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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