English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 2

They were very poor, and the old woman got her living by spinning, but Jack was so lazy that he would do nothing but bask in the sun in the hot weather, and sit by the corner of the hearth in the winter-time.

Who acts: They, old woman, Jack, woman · What happens: be, get, spin, do, bask, sit · To what, where: living, nothing, sun

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 (They, old woman, Jack, woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 living	nmod:poss
12	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 spinning	mark
14	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 got	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lazy	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lazy	cc
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lazy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lazy	aux
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 lazy	advmod
20	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 do	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lazy	advcl
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 do	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 bask	cc
27	bask	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 do	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sun	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bask	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 weather	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 weather	det
33	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 weather	amod
34	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bask	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sit	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sit	cc
37	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poor	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 corner	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 corner	det
40	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sit	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 hearth	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hearth	det
43	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 corner	nmod
44	in	in	ADP	_	48 time	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 time	det
46	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 time	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 winter	punct
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sit	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They				poor property	tree rules
2	get	past	the old woman	woman's living				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus
3	spin	gerund	the old woman not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	do	would	Jack	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	bask	present	Jack not said here		the sun		in the hot weather	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	sit	infinitive	They not said here			time	by the corner of the hearth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by corner=Location
7	live		woman					nom living «cognition 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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