English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 92
Jack said to him; he said: “Yes;” and off they went back again, and left the castle behind.
Who acts: Jack, mice · What happens: say, go back, leave · To what, where: gentleman, castle · 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, mice), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yes | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yes | punct |
| 10 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yes | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 went | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 left | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | gentleman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | mice = mouse | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | Jack not said here | the castle | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
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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