English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 8
The lad was well pleased with the wage he had received, and away he rode till he reached an inn.
Who acts: lad, Jack · What happens: be, receive, ride, reach · To what, where: wage, 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 (lad, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wage | det |
| 8 | wage | wage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 wage | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 rode | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 reached | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rode | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 inn | det |
| 21 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lad | with the wage; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Jack | the wage not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | Jack | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | Jack | a inn | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme |
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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