The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 1

In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a boy of a bold temper, and took delight in hearing or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies; and used to listen eagerly to the deeds of the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: live, name, be, take, use, listen · To what, where: lad, reign, boy, delight, hearing, conjurers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 reign	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reign	det
3	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Arthur	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Arthur	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Arthur	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Arthur	compound
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reign	nmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lived	advmod
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Cornwall	case
12	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lad	det
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obj
15	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lad	acl
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 named	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 boy	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Jack	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 temper	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 temper	det
24	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 temper	compound
25	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boy	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	conj
29	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 hearing	case
31	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 reading	cc
33	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hearing	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 conjurers	case
35	conjurers	conjurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reading	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 giants	punct
37	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 conjurers	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fairies	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fairies	cc
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 took	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 used	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 used	cc
43	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 listen	mark
45	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 used	xcomp
46	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	45 listen	advmod
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 deeds	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 deeds	det
49	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 listen	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 knights	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 knights	det
52	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 deeds	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	58 Table	case
54	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Arthur	compound
55	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Table	nsubj
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 Arthur	case
57	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Table	compound
58	Table	Table	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 knights	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a lad	the reign of the famous King Arthur; there	in Cornwall	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lad=Location
2	name	participle		a lad not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Jack	a boy		of a bold temper	tree rules
4	take	past		delight	hearing or reading of conjurers and giants	fairies obl	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in hearing=Location
5	use	past					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	listen	to-infinitive				to the deeds of the knights of Round Table; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deed=Theme
7	read			conjurers and giants			nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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