English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 45
“Well, get up,” said they to him; and away they went far and far over the great sea.
Who acts: man · What happens: get up, say, go · To what, where: Jack, great sea · 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), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 get | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 get | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 away | cc |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 far | cc |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 far | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sea | amod |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | the great sea | away, far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location |
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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