English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 36
“You watch the Johnny-cake while your father and I go out to work in the garden.”
Who acts: You, girl · What happens: watch, go out, work · To what, where: Johnny cake
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 (You, girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 5 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cake | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Johnny | punct |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 father | mark |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watch | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 work | mark |
| 16 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | present | You | the Johnny cake | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | present | girl | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | girl not said here | in the garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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