English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 50
Chuck him up to me-e!'”
Who acts: you · What happens: chuck up · To what, where: fellow, me
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 (you), 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 | Chuck | chuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Chuck | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Chuck | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Chuck | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 e | punct |
| 7 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chuck | parataxis |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 e | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 e | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck up | imperative | you not said here | fellow | me | 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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