English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 9
There he ordered the best of everything, and when the innkeeper refused to serve him without being paid beforehand, the boy went off to the stable, pulled the ass's ears and obtained his pocket full of money.
Who acts: Jack, innkeeper, boy · What happens: order, refuse, not serve, pay, go off, pull · To what, where: best, Jack, ears, pocket
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, innkeeper, boy), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 best | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 best | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refused | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 refused | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 refused | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 innkeeper | det |
| 12 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refused | nsubj |
| 13 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 serve | mark |
| 15 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refused | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 serve | obj |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 paid | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 paid | aux:pass |
| 19 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 serve | advcl |
| 20 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 19 paid | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stable | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stable | det |
| 28 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pulled | punct |
| 30 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ass | det |
| 32 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ears | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 ass | case |
| 34 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pulled | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 obtained | cc |
| 36 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 38 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 obtained | obj | ||
| 39 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 pocket | amod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 money | case |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 full | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Jack | the best | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | the innkeeper | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not serve | to-infinitive | the innkeeper not said here | Jack | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund · passive | the innkeeper not said here | beforehand property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | go off | past | the boy | to the stable | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pull | past | Jack not said here | the ass's ears | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 7 | obtain | past | Jack not said here | Jack's pocket | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pocket=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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