English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 112
Away went Jack and his castle again, and stopped one night in that place; and away they went again to the third place, and there left the castle under his care.
Who acts: man, Jack · What happens: go, stop, leave, care · To what, where: Jack, place, third place, castle, care
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, 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 castle | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 castle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Jack | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 castle | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stopped | cc |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 night | nummod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 away | cc |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 left | cc |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 left | advmod |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 castle | det |
| 31 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obj |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 care | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 care | nmod:poss |
| 34 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 left | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack and Jack's castle | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | that place | night | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | the third place | again | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | leave | past | the castle | Jack's care; there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme under care=Location | ||||
| 5 | care | Jack | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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