English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 119
And off they went, and were not long before they reached their journey's end, when out comes the young wife to meet him with a fine lump of a young SON, and they all lived happy ever afterwards.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, not be, reach, come out, meet, live · To what, where: end, young wife, Jack
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 long | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 comes | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 comes | compound:prt |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wife | amod |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 meet | mark |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 comes | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meet | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 lump | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lump | det |
| 29 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lump | amod |
| 30 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 SON | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 SON | det |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 SON | amod |
| 34 | SON | SON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lump | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lived | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lived | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lived | nsubj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 they | det |
| 39 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 40 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lived | xcomp |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 afterwards | advmod |
| 42 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 39 lived | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | off property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | man | man's journey's end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | present | man not said here | the young wife | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wife=Result | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | man not said here | Jack | with a fine lump of a young SON | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with lump=Instrument | |||
| 6 | live | past | man | afterwards, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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