English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 49

“But I shouldn't have minded all that if it hadn't been for that little fellow on top of the house, who kept a-hollering, 'Chuck him up to me-e!

Who acts: Jack, little fellow · What happens: not mind, have, not be, keep, chuck up · To what, where: axe, top, hollering, bull, 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, little fellow), 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	_	7 minded	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 minded	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 minded	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 minded	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 minded	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 minded	aux
7	minded	mind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det:predet
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 it	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 it	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 minded	obl
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 it	conj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fellow	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fellow	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 fellow	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fellow	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	amod
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fellow	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 top	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fellow	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hollering	det
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 a	punct
29	hollering	hollering	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Chuck	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 Chuck	punct
32	Chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 kept	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Chuck	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 Chuck	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 Chuck	obl
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 e	punct
38	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Chuck	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 minded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not mind in a quote	should · perfect	Jack	axe				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have in a quote	past	Jack not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	participle				top of the house	for that little fellow	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	past	that little fellow	a hollering				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hollering=Theme
5	chuck up in a quote	infinitive	that little fellow not said here	bull	Jack		e obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to 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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