English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 33
Jack gets his breakfast, and has a good squint at the young lady, and also she at him.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, have · To what, where: breakfast, good squint
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 squint | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 squint | amod |
| 10 | squint | squint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 squint | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 him | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 him | cc |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 him | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 him | nsubj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Jack | Jack's breakfast | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breakfast=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Jack not said here | a good squint | at the young lady | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squint=Patient |
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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