English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 32
Well, they went on till it was about dark, and they began to think of some place where they could spend the night.
Who acts: jolt, fortune · What happens: go on, be, begin, think, spend
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 (jolt, fortune), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 dark | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dark | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dark | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 dark | case |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 think | mark |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 spend | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spend | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 spend | aux |
| 23 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spend | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | jolt | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | fortune | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | jolt | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | jolt not said here | of some place | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | spend | could | jolt | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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