Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 63
Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone.
Who acts: Jack, room, shutters, hunger · What happens: get, close, light, eat, drink, be · To what, where: room, shutters, candles
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, room, shutters, hunger), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 party | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 party | nmod:poss |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | conj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 closed | punct |
| 10 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 room | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shutters | det |
| 12 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 closed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lighted | punct |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shutters | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 candles | det |
| 16 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lighted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ate | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ate | cc |
| 19 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drank | cc |
| 21 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ate | conj |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 gone | mark |
| 23 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thirst | cc |
| 25 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunger | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gone | cop |
| 27 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 drank | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack and Jack's party | the room | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | the room not said here | the shutters | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | light | participle | the shutters not said here | the candles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | drink | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | hunger and thirst | gone property | tree rules |
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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