English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 69
Now Jack, after wishing good morning to the King and pocketing the little mouse which was on sentry, trudged on his way; and such a long way he had to go and this was his first day.
Who acts: Jack, little mouse, long way, this · What happens: wish, pocket, be, trudge, have, go · To what, where: little mouse, sentry, way, long way, first day
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, little mouse, long way, this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 wishing | mark |
| 5 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Jack | acl |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wishing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wishing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pocketing | cc |
| 12 | pocketing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 wishing | conj | |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mouse | amod |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pocketing | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sentry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sentry | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sentry | case |
| 19 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouse | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trudged | punct |
| 21 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sentry | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trudged | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 way | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 way | cc |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 way | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | appos |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 way | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 day | cc |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 day | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 day | cop |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 day | nmod:poss |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 day | amod |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 way | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | Jack not said here | morning | to the King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | gerund | Jack not said here | the little mouse | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the little mouse | sentry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trudge | participle | sentry not said here | Jack's way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Jack | such long way and Jack's first day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | such long way and Jack's first day not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | this | Jack's first day | tree rules |
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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