English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 2

And their son never saw any other people in his life, but he knew that there was some more in the world besides his own father and mother, because he had lots of books, and he used to read every day about them.

Who acts: son, some · What happens: not see, know, be, have, use, read · To what, where: other people, life, lots · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, some), 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	_	5 saw	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 saw	advmod
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 people	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 people	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 was	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 besides	cop
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 besides	nsubj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 some	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
24	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knew	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 father	amod
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 besides	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mother	cc
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 father	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 besides	parataxis
34	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 books	case
36	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lots	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 used	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 used	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 used	nsubj
40	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 read	mark
42	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 used	xcomp
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 read	obl:unmarked
45	about	about	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 read	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	man's son	any other people	son's life			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	know	past	son					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	some				beside property	tree rules
4	have	past	son	lots of books				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
5	use	past	son					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	read	to-infinitive	son not said here			day	about man	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic

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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