English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 11
So Jack without knowing that any change had been made, rode away next morning to his father's house.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: know, make, ride away · To what, where: change, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 knowing | mark |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Jack | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 change | det |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 rode | advmod |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Jack not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | any change | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | ride away | past | Jack | Jack's father's house | morning | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to house=Trajectory |
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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