English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 52
Jack took all their money and poured it into his truelove's lap.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, pour · To what, where: money, lap
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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 money | det:predet |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 poured | cc |
| 7 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 poured | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lap | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 truelove | nmod:poss |
| 11 | truelove | truelove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 truelove | case |
| 13 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jack | sticks's money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pour | past | Jack not said here | money | Jack's truelove's lap | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into lap=Destination |
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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