English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 39
By-and-by the robbers saw it was all dark and they sent one man back to the house to look after their money.
Who acts: possession, robbers · What happens: see, be, send back, look · To what, where: one man, 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 (possession, robbers), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 robbers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robbers | det |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obl |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dark | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nummod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 sent | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 money | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 money | nmod:poss |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | by the robbers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | possession | all, dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send back | past | robbers = robber | one man | the house | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | after robbers's money | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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