Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 18
The first day that Jack served he was fed very poorly, and was worked to the saddleskirts.
Who acts: that · What happens: serve, feed, work · To what, where: Jack
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 (that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 served | nsubj |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 served | nsubj |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fed | aux:pass |
| 9 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 served | ccomp |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 poorly | advmod |
| 11 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 9 fed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worked | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 worked | aux:pass |
| 15 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 served | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 saddleskirts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 saddleskirts | det |
| 18 | saddleskirts | saddleskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 worked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | that | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feed | past · passive | Jack | poorly property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | work | past · passive | that not said here | to the saddleskirts | vn employment-95.3 «NP V» |
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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