English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 5
THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI.
Who acts: OLD WOMAN · What happens: go, seek · To what, where: FORTUNE
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OLD WOMAN), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 WOMAN | det |
| 2 | OLD | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 WOMAN | amod |
| 3 | WOMAN | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 WENT | nsubj |
| 4 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 PIG | cc |
| 5 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 PIG | nmod:poss |
| 6 | PIG | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 WOMAN | conj |
| 7 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 PIG | appos |
| 8 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 WENT | advmod |
| 9 | JACK | JACK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 WENT | nsubj |
| 10 | WENT | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | TO | to | PART | _ | 12 SEEK | mark |
| 12 | SEEK | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 WENT | xcomp |
| 13 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 FORTUNE | nmod:poss |
| 14 | FORTUNE | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 SEEK | obj |
| 15 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 14 FORTUNE | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 WENT | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the OLD WOMAN and HER PIG | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | the OLD WOMAN and HER PIG not said here | JACK's FORTUNE | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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