English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 28

Jack had hardly time to bring the words out of his mouth, to tell the little men what to do, but what it struck eight o'clock, when Bang, bang went one of the largest man-of-war vessels; and it made Jack jump out of bed to look through the window; and I can assure you it was a wonderful sight for him to see, after being so long with his father and mother living in a wood.

Who acts: Jack, mouth, Bang, I, father · What happens: have, bring, tell, do, strike, bang · To what, where: words, mouth, little men, eight o'clock, one, Jack · 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, mouth, Bang, I), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 struck	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 struck	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 struck	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 struck	nsubj
26	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
27	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 o'clock	nummod
28	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bang	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 bang	advmod
31	Bang	Bang	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bang	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Bang	punct
33	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 struck	parataxis
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bang	ccomp
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 went	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 man	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
38	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 man	amod
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 one	nmod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 vessels	punct
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 vessels	case
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 of	punct
43	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 vessels	compound
44	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 man	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 made	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 made	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 made	nsubj
48	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
49	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 made	obj
50	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 made	xcomp
51	out	out	ADP	_	53 bed	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 bed	case
53	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 jump	obl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 look	mark
55	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 jump	advcl
56	through	through	ADP	_	58 window	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 window	det
58	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 look	obl
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 assure	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 assure	cc
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 assure	nsubj
62	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 assure	aux
63	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 assure	iobj
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 sight	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 sight	cop
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 sight	det
68	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 sight	amod
69	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 assure	parataxis
70	for	for	SCONJ	_	73 see	mark
71	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 see	nsubj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 see	mark
73	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 sight	acl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 father	punct
75	after	after	ADP	_	81 father	case
76	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	81 father	cop
77	so	so	ADV	_	78 long	advmod
78	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	81 father	advmod
79	with	with	ADP	_	81 father	case
80	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	81 father	nmod:poss
81	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 assure	parataxis
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 mother	cc
83	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 father	conj
84	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	81 father	acl
85	in	in	ADP	_	87 wood	case
86	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 wood	det
87	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 living	obl
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Jack				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bring	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the words		Jack's mouth			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent word=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Jack not said here		the little men				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	strike	past	mouth	eight o'clock					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient o'clock=Result
6	bang	present	Bang						tree rules
7	go	past	Bang not said here	one of the largest man and war vessels					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
8	make	past	mouth	Jack					tree rules
9	jump out	infinitive	Jack not said here	bed					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory
10	look	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					through the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
11	assure	can	I		you				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
12	is a	past	mouth	a wonderful sight					tree rules
13	see	to-infinitive	Jack						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
14	is	gerund					after Jack's father and mother	long property	tree rules
15	live	gerund	Jack's father and mother not said here			a wood			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

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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