English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 6

So she presented him with an ass out of the stable, and he had but to pull Neddy's ears to make him begin at once to ee--aw!

Who acts: woman, Jack · What happens: present, have, pull, make, begin · To what, where: Jack, stable, ears

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 (woman, 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	_	3 presented	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 presented	nsubj
3	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 presented	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ass	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ass	det
7	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presented	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 stable	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stable	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stable	det
11	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presented	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 presented	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 pull	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pull	mark
18	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	conj
19	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ears	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Neddy	case
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pull	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pull	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 begin	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 ee	case
29	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begin	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 aw	punct
31	aw	aw	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ee	flat
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	present	past	woman		Jack	the stable	with a ass	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with ass=Theme
2	have	past	Jack					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pull	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Neddy's ears				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack				tree rules
5	begin	infinitive	Jack not said here				to ee	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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