English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 8
On Wednesday, Jack went out again and hired himself to a cow-keeper, who gave him a jar of milk for his day's work.
Who acts: Jack, cow keeper, day · What happens: go out, hire, give, work · To what, where: Jack, jar
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, cow keeper, day), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Wednesday | case |
| 2 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wednesday | punct |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hired | cc |
| 9 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 hired | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 keeper | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 keeper | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeper | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cow | punct |
| 15 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hired | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeper | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 jar | det |
| 21 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 milk | case |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jar | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 day | nmod:poss |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 work | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 day | case |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jar | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Jack | again; wednesday | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hire | past | Jack not said here | Jack | to a cow keeper | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | a cow keeper | a jar of milk | Jack | for Jack's day's work | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient jar=Theme for work=Asset | ||
| 4 | work | Jack's day | nom work «act 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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