English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 12
So on Thursday, Jack hired himself again to a farmer, who agreed to give him a cream cheese for his services.
Who acts: Jack, farmer · What happens: hire, agree, give, service · To what, where: Jack, cream cheese
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, farmer), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 hired | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Thursday | case |
| 3 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hired | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Thursday | punct |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hired | nsubj |
| 6 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hired | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 hired | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 farmer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hired | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 agreed | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 agreed | nsubj |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 agreed | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cheese | det |
| 19 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cheese | compound |
| 20 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 services | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 services | nmod:poss |
| 23 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cheese | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | Jack | Jack | again; thursday | to a farmer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | a farmer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | a farmer not said here | a cream cheese | Jack | for Jack's services | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cheese=Theme for service=Asset | ||
| 4 | service | Jack | nom service «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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