English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 75
Jack had to take another horse, and a cake to this King's brother, who is the King of all the fowls of the air; and as Jack was going through the gates, the little frog that was on sentry asked John should he go with him.
Who acts: Jack, brother, that, cake, John · What happens: have, take, be, go, ask · To what, where: horse, King, gates, sentry · 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, brother, that, cake), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 asked | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cake | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 King | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 King | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fowls | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 fowls | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fowls | det |
| 24 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 King | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fowls | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 asked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 asked | cc |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 going | mark |
| 31 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 going | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 going | aux |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 asked | advcl |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 gates | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gates | det |
| 36 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 going | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 frog | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 frog | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 frog | amod |
| 40 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gates | nmod |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 sentry | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sentry | cop |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 sentry | case |
| 44 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 frog | conj |
| 45 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 46 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 go | nsubj |
| 47 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 go | aux |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 go | nsubj |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 asked | ccomp |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 go | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | another horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this King's brother | the King | of all fowls of the air | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | Jack | the gates the little frog and sentry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | sentry | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | a cake to this King's brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go | should | John | with King | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=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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