English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 43
“I went to the table to look after the money and there was a shoemaker under the table, and he stuck his awl into me.”
Who acts: Jack, shoemaker · What happens: go, look, stick · To what, where: table, awl
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, shoemaker), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 money | det |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 money | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shoemaker | det |
| 16 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoemaker | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuck | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stuck | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stuck | nsubj |
| 23 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 awl | nmod:poss |
| 25 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stuck | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stuck | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Jack | the table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | after the money | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | past | shoemaker | shoemaker's awl | into Jack | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent awl=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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