English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 41

“I went back to the house,” said he, “and went in and tried to sit down in the rocking-chair, and there was an old woman knitting, and she stuck her knitting-needles into me.”

Who acts: Jack, old woman knitting, knitting · What happens: go back, say, go in, try, sit down, be · To what, where: rocking chair, knitting needles · 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, old woman knitting, knitting), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tried	cc
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sit	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 chair	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chair	det
24	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chair	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 rocking	punct
26	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 was	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 knitting	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 knitting	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knitting	compound
34	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	30 was	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stuck	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stuck	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stuck	nsubj
38	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 needles	nmod:poss
40	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	42 needles	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 knitting	punct
42	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stuck	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 stuck	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 stuck	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back in a quote	past	Jack			to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in in a quote	past					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try in a quote	past					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sit down not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			the rocking chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
6	be in a quote	past	a old woman knitting		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stick in a quote	past	knitting	knitting's knitting needles		into Jack	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into i=Destination

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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