English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 31
Her father was overjoyed, and fulfilled his promise by marrying her to Lazy Jack, who was thus made a rich gentleman.
Who acts: father · What happens: overjoy, fulfil, marry, make, promise · To what, where: father, promise, lady, Lazy
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 (father), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fulfilled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fulfilled | cc |
| 7 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fulfilled | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 marrying | mark |
| 11 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fulfilled | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 marrying | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Lazy | case |
| 14 | Lazy | Lazy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 marrying | obl |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lazy | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Lazy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gentleman | det |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gentleman | amod |
| 23 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | lady's father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fulfil | past | father's promise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry | gerund | lady | Lazy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to lazy=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | Lazy | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gentleman=Product | ||||
| 5 | promise | father | nom promise «communication 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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