English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 9
Jack took the jar and put it into the large pocket of his jacket, spilling it all, long before he got home.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, put, spill, get · To what, where: jar, large pocket
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jar | det |
| 4 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pocket | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pocket | amod |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl | ||
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 jacket | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 14 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pocket | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spilling | punct |
| 16 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spilling | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 it | det |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 got | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 got | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jack | the jar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Jack not said here | jar | the large pocket of Jack's jacket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | spill | gerund | Jack not said here | jar | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Jack | home, long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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