Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 19
Next day he came in just before the dinner was sent up to the parlour.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: come in, send up · To what, where: dinner, parlour
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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dinner | det |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sent | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 parlour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 parlour | det |
| 15 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Jack | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send up | past · passive | the dinner | the parlour | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to parlour=Destination |
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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