English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 21
Jack hitched the table on his back, and away he went with it till he came to the inn.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: hitch, go, come · To what, where: table, inn
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hitched | nsubj |
| 2 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hitched | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hitched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hitched | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 inn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inn | det |
| 20 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch | past | Jack | the table | on Jack's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent table=Patient on back=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Jack | with table; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Jack | the inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location |
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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