English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 14
By the time he got home the cheese was all spoilt, part of it being lost, and part matted with his hair.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, spoil, lose, mat · To what, where: time, cheese, part
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1368): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoilt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cheese | det |
| 8 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 spoilt | advmod |
| 11 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 part | nmod |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 spoilt | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 matted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 matted | cc |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 matted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | matted | mat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lost | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hair | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hair | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 matted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack | the time not said here | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | spoil | past · passive | the cheese | time | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lose | gerund · passive | part of cheese | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | mat | participle · passive | part | with Jack's hair | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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