English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 20

(He meant that he could do any foolish bit of work, that would be wanted about the house.)

Who acts: Jack · What happens: mean, do, want · To what, where: foolish bit, that · 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 (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	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bit	det
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bit	amod
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 work	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 wanted	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wanted	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wanted	aux:pass
17	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Jack			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	could	Jack	any foolish bit of work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Eventuality
3	want	would · passive		that	about the house	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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