English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 77
And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times as long this time as it was the first day; however, he found the place, and there was a fine bird on sentry.
Who acts: Jack, journey · What happens: go, be, find, journey · To what, where: great long journey, three times, first day, place, fine bird, sentry
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, journey), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 journey | amod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 journey | amod |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 times | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 times | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 times | cop |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 day | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 day | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 27 | however | however | ADV | _ | 30 found | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 however | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bird | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 was | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 was | expl |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 bird | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bird | det |
| 38 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bird | amod |
| 39 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 sentry | case |
| 41 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bird | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack | Jack's great long journey | again; time | away, long property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | journey | three times | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | journey | the first day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Jack | the place | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | past | a fine bird | sentry | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | journey | Jack | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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