Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 124
In two minutes more, when he was opening his mouth to take a sup, another sheep's eye was slapped into it.
Who acts: master, sup · What happens: open, take, slap · To what, where: mouth, sup, eye
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, sup), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 minutes | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 opening | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opening | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opening | aux |
| 9 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 more | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 opening | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sup | det |
| 15 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slapped | punct |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 sheep | det |
| 18 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eye | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 sheep | case |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slapped | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slapped | aux:pass |
| 22 | slapped | slap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sup | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slapped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · progressive | master | master's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | master not said here | a sup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sup=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slap | past · passive | a sup not said here | another sheep's eye | into sheep | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into it=Result |
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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