English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 9

He hadn't gone far when he met a funny-looking old man who said to him: “Good morning, Jack.”

Who acts: Jack, looking old man · What happens: not go, meet, look, say · To what, where: looking old man, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, looking old 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 met	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 funny	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 man	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
21	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Jack	punct
24	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 morning	appos
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Jack				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Jack	a looking old man				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	a looking old man		Jack	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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