English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 14
And away went poor Jack upon his road, and walked till he was tired and hungry, for he had eaten all his cake upon the road; and by this time night was upon him, so he could hardly see his way before him.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go, walk, be, eat, see · To what, where: poor Jack, cake, way
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), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Jack | amod |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 road | nmod:poss |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 tired | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tired | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tired | cop |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walked | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hungry | cc |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tired | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eaten | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 eaten | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 eaten | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eaten | aux |
| 22 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 walked | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 cake | det:predet |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cake | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eaten | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eaten | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 him | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 him | cc |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 night | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 night | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 night | compound |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 him | obl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 him | cop |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 see | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 see | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 42 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 43 see | advmod |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 way | nmod:poss |
| 45 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | obj |
| 46 | before | before | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | poor Jack | upon Jack's road; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Jack | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Jack not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | eat | past · perfect | Jack | Jack's cake | upon the road | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | night | upon Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | could | Jack | Jack's way | before lad | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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