English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 118
Jack shook hands with the King, and returned many thanks for his kingly kindness in minding the castle for him; and then Jack instructed the little men to spur up and put speed on.
Who acts: Jack, kingly kindness · What happens: shake, return, mind, instruct, spur up, put · To what, where: hands, many thanks, castle, little men
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, kingly kindness), 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 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shook | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thanks | amod |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 kindness | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kindness | amod |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 minding | mark |
| 17 | minding | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kindness | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 minding | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 minding | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 instructed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 instructed | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 instructed | advmod |
| 25 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 instructed | nsubj |
| 26 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 men | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 men | amod |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 instructed | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 spur | mark |
| 31 | spur | spur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 instructed | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 spur | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 speed | cc |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 speed | amod |
| 35 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spur | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 spur | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Jack | hands | with the King | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with king=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | return | past | Jack not said here | many thanks | for Jack's kingly kindness | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||
| 3 | mind | gerund | Jack's kingly kindness not said here | the castle | for Jack | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 4 | instruct speech: other | past | Jack | the little men | then | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 5 | spur up | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | put | participle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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