English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 35
Then Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and then to make all the noise they could.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go back, tell, wait, give, make · To what, where: robbers, word, noise · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wait | mark |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | xcomp |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 gave | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 make | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 noise | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 could | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 noise | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Jack | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack not said here | robbers = robber | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Jack | the word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | all noise | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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