English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 5
This roused Jack, and he went out and hired himself for the next day to a neighbouring farmer for a penny; but as he was coming home, never having had any money before, he lost it in passing over a brook.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: rouse, go out, hire, neighbour, come, not have · To what, where: This, Jack, money, brook
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.
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 roused | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roused | parataxis |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hired | cc |
| 10 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hired | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hired | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 farmer | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 farmer | det |
| 18 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 farmer | amod |
| 19 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 penny | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 penny | det |
| 22 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 farmer | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 coming | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 coming | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 coming | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 coming | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 coming | aux |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 roused | conj |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 coming | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 had | advmod |
| 32 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 had | aux |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 coming | parataxis |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 money | det |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 36 | before | before | ADV | _ | 33 had | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lost | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lost | nsubj |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lost | obj |
| 41 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 42 passing | mark |
| 42 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 lost | advcl |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 brook | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 brook | det |
| 45 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 passing | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle · passive | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | Jack | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hire | past | Jack not said here | Jack | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | Jack | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not have | gerund · perfect | any money | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lose | past | Jack | money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | pass | gerund | Jack not said here | a brook | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over brook=Location |
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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