English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 4
He agreed, for he was very hungry, and she brought him to her house in the wood, where he served her for a twelvemonths and a day.
Who acts: Jack, woman · What happens: agree, be, bring, serve · To what, where: Jack, wood, woman · 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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hungry | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 hungry | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 served | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 served | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 served | nsubj |
| 23 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wood | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 served | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 twelvemonths | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 twelvemonths | det |
| 27 | twelvemonths | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 served | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 day | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 twelvemonths | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Jack | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Jack | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | woman | Jack | the wood | to woman's house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 4 | serve | past | Jack | woman | for a twelvemonths and a day | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for twelvemonth=Recipient |
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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