English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 58
Then Jack got a good meal and bed, and in the morning he and the King went on to the fields; and the King called all the mice together, and asked them whether they had seen the great beautiful castle standing on golden pillars.
Who acts: Jack, King, mice, great beautiful castle · What happens: get, go on, call, ask, see, stand · To what, where: good meal, mice, great beautiful castle, golden pillars · 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 (Jack, King, mice, great beautiful castle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meal | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meal | amod |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bed | cc |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meal | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 King | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 he | conj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 fields | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fields | det |
| 22 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 called | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | nsubj |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 mice | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mice | det |
| 30 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 called | xcomp |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 called | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 asked | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 asked | cc |
| 34 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 asked | obj |
| 36 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 39 seen | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 seen | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 seen | aux |
| 39 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 asked | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 castle | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 castle | amod |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 castle | amod |
| 43 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 seen | obj |
| 44 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 castle | acl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 pillars | case |
| 46 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pillars | amod |
| 47 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 standing | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack | a good meal and bed | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Jack | morning | to the fields | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | past | the King | all mice | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | mice = mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | mice = mouse | the great beautiful castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | the great beautiful castle not said here | golden pillars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillar=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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