English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 24
It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went off as fast as he could walk.
Who acts: rest, Jack, Deary · What happens: not be, wait, receive, go off, walk · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, Jack, Deary), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 waited | mark |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 receiving | mark |
| 9 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 waited | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 money | det |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receiving | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 went | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 walk | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walk | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 walk | aux |
| 21 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fast | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | rest | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Jack | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | receive | gerund | Jack not said here | the money | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go off | past | Deary | fast property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk | could | Deary | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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