English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 51
There was one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate going up to the palace, and did try to stop Jack from going in.
Who acts: one, front gate · What happens: be, go up, try, stop, go in · To what, where: Jack
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 (one, front gate), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mice | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mice | amod |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sentry | case |
| 9 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mice | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 12 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gate | amod |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentry | nmod |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 gate | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 try | cc |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 try | aux |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stop | mark |
| 24 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 try | xcomp |
| 25 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stop | obj |
| 26 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 stop | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 going | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the front gate not said here | to the palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | try | past · do-support | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality jack=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go in | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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