English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 27

Jack found it hard to hoist the donkey on his shoulders, but at last he did it, and began walking slowly home with his prize.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: find, hoist, do, begin, walk · To what, where: keeper, donkey, shoulders, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1378): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hoist	mark
6	hoist	hoist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 donkey	det
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hoist	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shoulders	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hoist	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 did	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 did	conj
22	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 began	xcomp
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 walking	advmod
24	home	home	ADV	_	22 walking	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 prize	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 prize	nmod:poss
27	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Jack	keeper		hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	hoist	to-infinitive		the donkey	donkey's shoulders		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	do	past	Jack	keeper	last		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	begin	past	Jack not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	walk	gerund	Jack not said here			with donkey's prize; home, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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