Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 20

They were taking the goose off the spit, but well becomes Jack he whips a knife off the dresser, and cuts off one side of the breast, one leg and thigh, and one wing, and fell to.

Who acts: terms, taking, Jack · What happens: take, become, whip, cut off, fall · To what, where: goose, spit, knife, one side

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 (terms, taking, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 becomes	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goose	det
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 spit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spit	det
8	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 becomes	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 becomes	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 becomes	advmod
12	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 becomes	xcomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whips	nsubj
15	whips	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 becomes	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 knife	det
17	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whips	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 dresser	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dresser	det
20	dresser	dresser	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knife	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cuts	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cuts	cc
23	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 becomes	advcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 cuts	compound:prt
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 side	nummod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cuts	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 breast	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 breast	det
29	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 leg	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 leg	nummod
32	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cuts	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thigh	cc
34	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leg	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wing	cc
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 wing	nummod
38	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cuts	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fell	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fell	cc
41	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cuts	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	41 fell	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 becomes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	terms = term	the goose	the spit		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent goose=Theme off spit=Initial_Location
2	become	present	taking			well property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	whip	present	Jack	a knife		off the dresser	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knife=Material
4	cut off	present	taking not said here	one side of the breast		one leg and thigh obl	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector side=Eventuality
5	fall	past	taking not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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