English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 47
That poor silly Jack is threatened by taking his beautiful young wife from him, for taking them in in the way he did.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: threaten, take, do · To what, where: poor silly Jack, beautiful young wife, pillars, way
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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Jack | nsubj |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jack | amod |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jack | amod |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 threatened | aux:pass |
| 6 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 taking | mark |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 threatened | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 taking | mark |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 taking | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present · passive | poor silly Jack | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Jack's beautiful young wife | from Jack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | pillars = pillar | the way | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Jack | the way not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
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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