English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 108
At length, after a merry journey, they come again to Jack and the King.
Who acts: man · What happens: come · To what, where: Jack, length
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 journey | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Jack | case |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 King | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jack | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | man | Jack and the King | length and a merry journey | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jack=Initial_Location |
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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