English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 113
As Jack had to leave the castle behind, he had to take to his own horse, which he left there when he first started.
Who acts: Jack, own horse · What happens: have, leave, take, start · To what, where: castle
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, own horse), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 leave | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 horse | acl:relcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 left | advmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 started | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 started | nsubj |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 started | advmod |
| 26 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the castle | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | to Jack's own horse result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to horse=Result | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | Jack's own horse | there | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | start | past | Jack | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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