English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 1
Once on a time there was a boy named Jack, and one morning he started to go and seek his fortune.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, name, start, go, seek · To what, where: Jack, fortune
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 boy | acl |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 morning | nummod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 started | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seek | cc |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a boy | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a boy not said here | Jack | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | boy | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | boy not said here | boy's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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