English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 36
So when they were all ready Jack gave the word, and the cat mewed, and the dog barked, and the goat bleated, and the bull bellowed, and the rooster crowed, and all together they made such a dreadful noise that it frightened the robbers all away.
Who acts: robbers, ready Jack, cat, dog, goat, bull · What happens: be, give, mew, bark, bleat, bellow · To what, where: word, dreadful noise, robbers
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 (robbers, ready Jack, cat, dog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 gave | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ready | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Jack | amod |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mewed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mewed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mewed | nsubj |
| 15 | mewed | mew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 barked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 barked | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 barked | nsubj |
| 20 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mewed | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bleated | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bleated | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 goat | det |
| 24 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bleated | nsubj |
| 25 | bleated | bleat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mewed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bellowed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bellowed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bull | det |
| 29 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bellowed | nsubj |
| 30 | bellowed | bellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crowed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 crowed | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rooster | det |
| 34 | rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 crowed | nsubj |
| 35 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bellowed | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 made | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 made | cc |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 together | advmod |
| 39 | together | together | ADV | _ | 41 made | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | nsubj |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 42 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 noise | det:predet |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 noise | det |
| 44 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 noise | amod |
| 45 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | obj |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 frightened | mark |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 frightened | nsubj |
| 48 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 robbers | det |
| 50 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 frightened | obj |
| 51 | all | all | ADV | _ | 52 away | advmod |
| 52 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 frightened | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | robbers = robber | all, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | ready Jack | the word | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mew | past | the cat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bark | past | the dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bleat | past | the goat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bellow | past | the bull | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | crow | past | the rooster | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | make | past | robbers = robber | such dreadful noise | together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 9 | frighten | past | noise | the robbers | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus robber=Experiencer |
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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