Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 139
He was stripped to his hips, and laid on the floor in the next room, and Jack had the carving knife in his hand ready to begin.
Who acts: Jack, carving knife · What happens: strip, lay, have, begin · To what, where: help, floor, carving knife, hand
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 (Jack, carving knife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stripped | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stripped | aux:pass |
| 3 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hips | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stripped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stripped | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 room | amod |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stripped | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knife | det |
| 22 | carving | carving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knife | compound |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knife | nmod |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 begin | mark |
| 29 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | past · passive | help | to help's hips | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | the floor | in the next room | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Jack | the carving knife | help's hand | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | ||
| 4 | begin | to-infinitive | the carving knife not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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