English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 45
“I started to go upstairs, and there was a man up there threshing, and he knocked me down with his flail.”
Who acts: Jack, man · What happens: start, go, be, knock down · To what, where: Jack
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, man), 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 started | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | xcomp |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 threshing | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threshing | nsubj |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 threshing | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 threshing | advmod |
| 15 | threshing | thresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 started | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knocked | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knocked | nsubj |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 knocked | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 knocked | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 flail | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 flail | nmod:poss |
| 24 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knocked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | past | Jack | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | a man | there | thresh property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | knock down in a quote | past | man | Jack | with man's flail | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with flail=Instrument |
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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