English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 1
A lad named Jack was once so unhappy at home through his father's ill-treatment, that he made up his mind to run away and seek his fortune in the wide world.
Who acts: lad, Jack, father · What happens: name, be, make up, run away, seek, treat · To what, where: Jack, home, mind, fortune, wide world
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Jack, father), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unhappy | nsubj |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lad | acl |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unhappy | cop |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 unhappy | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 unhappy | advmod |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unhappy | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 treatment | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 treatment | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ill | punct |
| 17 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unhappy | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unhappy | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 run | mark |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | advcl |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 run | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seek | cc |
| 29 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 run | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 31 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seek | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 34 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 world | amod |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seek | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a lad not said here | Jack | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a lad | home | through Jack's father's ill treatment; once, unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make up | past | Jack | Jack's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | run away | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's fortune | the wide world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 6 | treat | Jack's father | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | mind | Jack | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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