Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 56
Then Jack made a sign, and they all sung out like mad.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: make, sing out · To what, where: sign, hoofs
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sung | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sung | compound:prt |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 mad | case |
| 13 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Jack | a sign | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 2 | sing out speech: express | participle · passive | hoofs = hoof | like mad | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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: «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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