English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 40
On that morning his valet, when putting Jack's clothes by, after changing them to go a hunting, put his hand in one of Jack's waistcoat-pockets, and pulled out the little golden snuffbox, as poor Jack left behind in a mistake.
Who acts: poor Jack · What happens: put, change, go, pull out, leave behind · To what, where: clothes, hunting, hand, little golden snuffbox, mistake
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 (poor 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 valet | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 valet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | valet | valet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 putting | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 putting | advmod |
| 8 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 valet | appos |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Jack | case |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 putting | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 putting | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changing | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 changing | mark |
| 15 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 putting | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 changing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 changing | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hunting | det |
| 20 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pockets | case |
| 28 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Jack | case |
| 30 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pockets | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 waistcoat | punct |
| 32 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod | |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pulled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pulled | cc |
| 35 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 changing | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 pulled | compound:prt |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 snuffbox | det |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 snuffbox | amod |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 snuffbox | amod |
| 40 | snuffbox | snuffbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pulled | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 left | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 left | mark |
| 43 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Jack | amod |
| 44 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 left | nsubj |
| 45 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 pulled | parataxis |
| 46 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 45 left | advmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 mistake | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 mistake | det |
| 49 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 left | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 valet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | Jack's clothes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | a hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Jack's hand | in one of Jack's waistcoat pockets | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in one=Destination | ||||
| 5 | pull out | participle | the little golden snuffbox | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave behind | past | poor Jack | in a mistake result; behind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mistake=Result |
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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