English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 10

The host had watched all this through a crack in the door, and when night came on he put an ass of his own for the precious Neddy of the poor youth.

Who acts: night, Jack · What happens: watch, come on, put · To what, where: host, crack, ass

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 (night, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	aux
4	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 watched	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 crack	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crack	det
9	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crack	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 came	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	parataxis
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ass	det
22	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 own	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 own	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ass	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 Neddy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Neddy	det
28	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Neddy	amod
29	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 youth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 youth	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 youth	amod
33	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Neddy	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · passive		the host	a crack in the door		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme this=Attribute
2	come on	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	past	Jack	a ass of Jack's own		for the precious Neddy of the poor youth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ass=Goal

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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