English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 117
Jack put full power on and despatched the little men off to bring the castle from there, and they soon got there.
Who acts: Jack, man · What happens: put, despatch off, bring, get · To what, where: full power, little men, 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, 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 power | amod |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 despatched | mark |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 despatched | cc |
| 7 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 despatched | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 despatched | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 despatched | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 bring | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 got | advmod |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 got | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jack | full power | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent power=Goal | ||||
| 2 | despatch off | past | Jack not said here | the little men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme from there=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | past | man | there | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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