English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 9
Jack Hannaford, the old soldier, came and rapped at the door.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: come, rap
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 (Jack), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | Hannaford | Hannaford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soldier | amod |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rapped | cc |
| 10 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rapped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Jack | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rap | past | Jack not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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