English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 38

Jack was afraid the robbers would come back in the night, and so when it came time to go to bed he put the cat in the rocking-chair, and he put the dog under the table, and he put the goat upstairs, and he put the bull down cellar, and the rooster flew up on to the roof, and Jack went to bed.

Who acts: Jack, robbers, possession, rooster · What happens: be, come back, come, go, put, put down · To what, where: bed, cat, rocking chair, dog, table, goat

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, robbers, possession, rooster), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robbers	det
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 time	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 bed	case
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bed	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 chair	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chair	det
29	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chair	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 rocking	punct
31	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 put	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obj
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 table	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 table	det
40	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 put	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	nsubj
44	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 goat	det
46	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 put	obj
47	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	44 put	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 put	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 put	cc
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 put	nsubj
51	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 bull	det
53	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 put	obj
54	down	down	ADP	_	51 put	compound:prt
55	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 put	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 flew	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 flew	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 rooster	det
59	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 flew	nsubj
60	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 flew	compound:prt
62	on	on	ADP	_	65 roof	case
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 roof	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 roof	det
65	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 flew	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 went	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 went	cc
68	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 went	nsubj
69	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
70	to	to	ADP	_	71 bed	case
71	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 went	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jack					afraid property	tree rules
2	come back	would	the robbers				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	possession						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	possession not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	put	past	Jack	the cat		the rocking chair			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme in chair=Destination
6	put	past	Jack	the dog		the table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme under table=Destination
7	put	past	Jack		the goat			upstairs property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent goat=Goal
8	put down	past	Jack	the bull					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent bull=Asset cellar=Goal
9	fly up	past	the rooster			the roof			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
10	go	past	Jack			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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