English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 111
Jack takes a farewell of the King, and thanks him very much for his hospitality.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, thank · To what, where: farewell, King
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 (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 | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farewell | det |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thanks | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thanks | cc |
| 10 | thanks | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thanks | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 thanks | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hospitality | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thanks | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Jack | a farewell of the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | Jack not said here | King | for King's hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for hospitality=Attribute |
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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