English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 40
Before long he came back in a great fright and told them his story.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: come back, tell · To what, where: great fright, story, robbers · 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fright | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fright | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fright | amod |
| 9 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Jack | a great fright | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before long=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack not said here | Jack's story | robbers = robber | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
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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