English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 47
Next morning the street was full of girls with aprons held out, and gold and silver in them; but Jack's own sweetheart was among them, and she had neither gold nor silver, nought but two copper pennies, that was all she had.
Who acts: street, own sweetheart, cudgel · What happens: be, hold out, have · To what, where: aprons, gold
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 (street, own sweetheart, cudgel), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 street | det |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | cop |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 girls | case |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 aprons | case |
| 10 | aprons | apron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 girls | nmod |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 aprons | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 held | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gold | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gold | cc |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 silver | cc |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gold | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 silver | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 them | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 them | cc |
| 22 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Jack | case |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sweetheart | amod |
| 25 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 them | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 them | cop |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 full | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | parataxis |
| 33 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 gold | det |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 silver | cc |
| 36 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gold | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 nought | punct |
| 38 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 34 gold | appos |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 pennies | cc |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 pennies | nummod |
| 41 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pennies | compound |
| 42 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 nought | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 all | punct |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 all | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 all | cop |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 had | conj |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 had | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 all | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the street | morning | of girls with aprons; full property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold out | participle | aprons not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Jack's own sweetheart | among aprons = apron | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | cudgel | neither gold nor silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | cudgel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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