English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 4

His mother could not get him to do anything for her, and at last told him, one Monday, that if he did not begin to work for his porridge she would turn him out to get his living as he could.

Who acts: mother, Jack · What happens: not get, do, tell, not begin, not work, turn out · To what, where: Jack, anything, one, last, living · 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 (mother, Jack), 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	5 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	xcomp
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	obl
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 told	obj
20	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begin	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 begin	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 begin	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begin	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begin	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 begin	advmod
27	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 work	mark
29	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begin	xcomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 porridge	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 porridge	nmod:poss
32	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turn	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 turn	aux
35	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 work	ccomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	35 turn	compound:prt
38	to	to	PART	_	39 get	mark
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 turn	advcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 living	nmod:poss
41	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 get	obj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 could	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 could	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 get	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not get	could	Jack's mother	Jack				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	anything			for mother	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	Jack's mother not said here	one Monday	Jack	last		tree rules
4	not begin a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Jack					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not work	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	turn out	would	mother	Jack			for Jack's porridge	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Result for porridge=Beneficiary
7	get	to-infinitive	mother not said here	Jack's living				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus
8	live		Jack					nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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