English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 25
And when he opened it, out there hopped three little red men, and asked Jack: “What is your will with us?”
Who acts: Jack · What happens: open, hop, ask · To what, where: box, three little red men, 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 (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 | _ | 9 hopped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 opened | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hopped | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hopped | advmod |
| 9 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 men | nummod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hopped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hopped | conj |
| 17 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 will | obj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 will | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 will | nmod:poss |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hopped | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 will | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 will | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Jack | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | three little red men | there | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Jack | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient |
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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