English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 23
His mother was this time quite out of patience with him, for the next day was Sunday, and she was obliged to make do with cabbage for her dinner.
Who acts: mother, next day · What happens: be, oblige, make, do · To what, where: patience, mother
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 (mother, next day), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 patience | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 patience | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 patience | nsubj |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 patience | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 patience | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 patience | case |
| 9 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 patience | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sunday | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Sunday | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Sunday | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Sunday | cop |
| 18 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 patience | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 obliged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 obliged | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obliged | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obliged | aux:pass |
| 23 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 patience | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 obliged | advcl |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 cabbage | case |
| 28 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 dinner | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 patience | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack's mother | patience and Sunday | with Jack | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the next day | for Sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | mother | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | with cabbage; for mother's dinner | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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