Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 107
The lord took Jack in hands, dressed him from top to toe in broadcloth, and frills as white as snow, and turnpumps, and put a watch in his fob.
Who acts: lord · What happens: take, dress, put · To what, where: Jack, hands, top, watch, fob
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dressed | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 toe | case |
| 13 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 broadcloth | case |
| 15 | broadcloth | broadcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toe | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 white | cc |
| 18 | frills | frill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 white | nsubj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 white | advmod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 snow | case |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turnpumps | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turnpumps | cc |
| 25 | turnpumps | turnpump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 watch | det |
| 30 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 fob | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fob | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fob | fob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the lord | Jack | hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jack=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | dress | past | the lord not said here | Jack | top | to toe in broadcloth | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the lord not said here | a watch | frill's fob | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in fob=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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