The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 73

After some years Jack and his wife went to visit his father, but the farmer did not recognize him, and declared he had no son; he had had one, but that one was born with bristles like a hedgehog, and had gone off into the wide world.

Who acts: Jack, farmer · What happens: go, visit, not recognize, declare, have, bear · To what, where: father, Jack, son, one, wide world · 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 (Jack, farmer), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jack	conj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 visit	mark
10	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 recognize	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 recognize	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmer	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recognize	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 recognize	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 recognize	advmod
19	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 visit	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 recognize	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 declared	cc
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 declared	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 went	parataxis
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 had	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 born	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 born	cc
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 born	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 born	aux:pass
38	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 had	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 bristles	case
40	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 born	obl
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 hedgehog	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 hedgehog	det
43	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bristles	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gone	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gone	cc
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 gone	aux
47	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 went	parataxis
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 gone	compound:prt
49	into	into	ADP	_	52 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
51	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 world	amod
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gone	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jack and Jack's wife			year		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	to-infinitive	Jack and Jack's wife not said here	Jack's father				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent
3	not recognize	past · do-support	the farmer	Jack				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	declare speech: other	past	Jack and Jack's wife not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	Jack	no son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
6	have	past · perfect	Jack	one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	bear	past · passive		that one			with bristles like a hedgehog	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	go off	past · perfect			the wide world			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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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