English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 33
About this time they came in sight of a house, and Jack told them to keep still while he went up and looked in through the window.
Who acts: jolt, Jack · What happens: come, tell, keep, go up, look in, sight · To what, where: sight, jolt, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Jack), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | xcomp |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 keep | advmod |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 went | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 looked | compound:prt |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 window | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 window | det |
| 28 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | jolt | sight of a house | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack | jolt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | Jack | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | look in | past | Jack not said here | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sight | a house | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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