English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 76

Jack refused him for a bit; but at last he told him to jump up, and Jack put him in his other waistcoat pocket.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: refuse, tell, jump up, put · To what, where: King, last, other waistcoat pocket · 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), 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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 jump	mark
15	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 jump	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
19	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 pocket	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pocket	nmod:poss
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pocket	amod
25	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pocket	compound
26	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Jack	King			for a bit	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack		King	last		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	jump up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	past	Jack	King		Jack's other waistcoat pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pocket=Destination

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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