English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 29

By this time Jack dressed himself, and said his prayers, and came down laughing; for he was proud, he was, because the thing was done so well.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: dress, say, come down, laugh, be, do · To what, where: Jack, prayers · 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dressed	obl
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dressed	nsubj
5	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 dressed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dressed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prayers	nmod:poss
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dressed	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 came	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 proud	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 proud	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 proud	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 proud	cop
21	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dressed	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 done	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thing	det
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux:pass
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 proud	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 done	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Jack	Jack	time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Jack not said here	Jack's prayers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	come down	past	Jack not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	Jack not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Jack			proud property	tree rules
6	do	past · passive		Jack		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	pray		Jack				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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