English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 21

So on Saturday, Jack hired himself to a butcher, who rewarded him by the handsome present of a shoulder of mutton.

Who acts: Jack, butcher · What happens: hire, reward · To what, where: Jack

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, butcher), 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 Saturday	case
3	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hired	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Saturday	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	to	to	ADP	_	10 butcher	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 butcher	det
10	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hired	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rewarded	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 rewarded	nsubj
13	rewarded	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 butcher	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rewarded	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 present	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 present	det
17	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 present	amod
18	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rewarded	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 shoulder	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shoulder	det
21	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 present	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 mutton	case
23	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoulder	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			saturday	to a butcher	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	reward	past	a butcher		Jack			by the handsome present of a shoulder of mutton	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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