English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 5

The young man's father was out all this time, when this talk was going on between him and his poor old mother.

Who acts: father, talk · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: time

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 (father, talk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	cop
7	out	out	ADV	_	10 time	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 going	advmod
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 talk	det
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 time	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 going	compound:prt
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mother	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 him	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the young man's father	all time				out property	tree rules
2	go on	past · progressive	this talk					between son	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between he=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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