English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 22

Jack took the mutton, tied it to a string, and trailed it along after him in the dirt, so that by the time he had got home the meat was completely spoilt.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, tie, trail, get, spoil · To what, where: mutton, dirt, meat

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.

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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mutton	det
4	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct
6	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tied	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 string	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 string	det
10	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trailed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trailed	cc
13	trailed	trail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trailed	obj
15	along	along	ADV	_	13 trailed	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trailed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dirt	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dirt	det
20	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trailed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spoilt	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	35 spoilt	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 got	aux
29	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 spoilt	advcl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 got	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 meat	det
32	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spoilt	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 spoilt	aux:pass
34	completely	completely	ADV	_	35 spoilt	advmod
35	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 trailed	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Jack	the mutton				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mutton=Theme
2	tie	past	Jack not said here	mutton			to a string	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to string=Co-Patient
3	trail	past	Jack not said here	mutton	the dirt	after Jack	along property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dirt=Trajectory
4	get	past · perfect	Jack			time	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	spoil	past · passive		the meat			completely property	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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