The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 74
Then Jack told his story, and his old father rejoiced and returned to live with him in his kingdom.
Who acts: Jack, old father · What happens: tell, rejoice, return, live · To what, where: story, kingdom · 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, old father), 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 | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rejoiced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rejoiced | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 father | amod |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 11 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rejoiced | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 returned | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 live | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack | Jack's story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | rejoice | past | Jack's old father | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Jack's old father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | Jack's old father not said here | Jack's kingdom | with Jack | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
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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