Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 9
Well, he went along and along till he was tired, and ne'er a farmer's house he went into wanted a boy.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go, be, want · To what, where: house, boy
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 along | cc |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 along | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 tired | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tired | cop |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wanted | cc |
| 14 | ne'er | ne'er | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 farmer | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wanted | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 house | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 went | obl |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wanted | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Jack | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Jack | a farmer's house not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past | Jack not said here | a boy | ne'er a farmer's house | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=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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