English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 26
On the next Monday, Lazy Jack went once more, and hired himself to a cattle-keeper, who gave him a donkey for his trouble.
Who acts: Lazy, cattle keeper · What happens: go, hire, give, trouble · To what, where: Lazy, donkey
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, cattle keeper), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Monday | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Monday | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Monday | amod |
| 4 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Monday | punct |
| 6 | Lazy | Lazy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lazy | flat |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hired | cc |
| 13 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hired | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 keeper | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 keeper | det |
| 17 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeper | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cattle | punct |
| 19 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hired | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 keeper | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 donkey | det |
| 25 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 donkey | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lazy | monday | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hire | past | Lazy not said here | Lazy | to a cattle keeper | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | a cattle keeper | a donkey | Lazy | for Lazy's trouble | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient donkey=Theme for trouble=Asset | ||
| 4 | trouble | Lazy | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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