English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 41
And that man opened the little box, and there hopped the three little red men out, and asked him what he wanted with them.
Who acts: man, Jack · What happens: open, hop, ask, want · To what, where: little box, three little red men, 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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 opened | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | amod |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hopped | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hopped | advmod |
| 11 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hopped | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 hopped | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 wanted | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | that man | the little box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | that man not said here | the three little red men | there | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | that man not said here | Jack | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | want | past | Jack | with man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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