More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 118
The great haunt of the giants was a wood, and John set out with his old sword to perform his task.
Who acts: great haunt, John · What happens: be, set out, perform, task · To what, where: wood, task
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great haunt, John), 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 haunt | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 haunt | amod |
| 3 | haunt | haunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 giants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giants | det |
| 6 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 haunt | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wood | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wood | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sword | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sword | amod |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 perform | mark |
| 20 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 task | nmod:poss |
| 22 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perform | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great haunt of the giants | a wood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | John | a wood not said here | with John's old sword | tree rules | |||
| 3 | perform | to-infinitive | John not said here | John's task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | ||||
| 4 | task | John | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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