English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 17

On Friday, Lazy Jack again went out, and hired himself to a baker, who would give him nothing for his work but a large tom-cat.

Who acts: Lazy Jack, baker, Jack · What happens: go out, hire, give, work · To what, where: Jack, nothing

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 (Lazy Jack, baker, 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:pg7439:1370): 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 Friday	case
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Friday	punct
4	Lazy	Lazy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Jack	compound
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 went	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hired	cc
11	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 hired	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 baker	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 baker	det
15	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hired	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 baker	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 give	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 work	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 work	nmod:poss
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
25	but	but	ADP	_	30 cat	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cat	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cat	amod
28	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cat	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 tom	punct
30	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nothing	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Lazy Jack			again; friday		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hire	past	Lazy Jack not said here	Jack			to a baker	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	give	would	a baker	nothing	Jack		but a large tom cat; for Jack's work	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme for work=Asset
4	work		Jack					nom work «act intransitive»: 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: 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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