English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 36
“All right,” said Jack; when the third and last morning came the third great feat was finished, and he had the young daughter in marriage.
Who acts: Jack, third morning, third great feat · What happens: say, come, be, have · To what, where: young daughter, marriage · 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, third morning, third great feat), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 morning | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 last | cc |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 third | conj |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feat | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 feat | amod |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feat | amod |
| 19 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finished | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finished | cop |
| 21 | finished | finished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 came | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 daughter | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 daughter | amod |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 marriage | case |
| 30 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the third morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the third great feat | finished property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Jack | the young daughter | marriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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