English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 48
But the gentleman at last made an agreement with him, and he is to have a twelvemonths and a day to look for it; and off he goes with a good horse and money in his pocket.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: make, be, look, go · To what, where: agreement, pocket
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 (gentleman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gentleman | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 agreement | det |
| 8 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agreement | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 twelvemonths | det |
| 18 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twelvemonths | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 twelvemonths | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 goes | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 goes | cc |
| 28 | off | off | ADV | _ | 30 goes | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 goes | nsubj |
| 30 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 horse | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 horse | amod |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 money | cc |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 horse | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 pocket | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 39 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | obl | ||
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the gentleman at last | a agreement | with Jack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Product | |||
| 2 | is | present | gentleman | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | for agreement | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | present | gentleman | Jack's pocket | with a good horse and money; off property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with horse=Beneficiary |
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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