The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 17
Jack next took a great bunch of keys from the pocket of Blunderbore, and went into the castle again.
Who acts: you · What happens: jack, take, go · To what, where: great bunch, castle
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 (you), 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 | Jack | jack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jack | parataxis |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bunch | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bunch | amod |
| 6 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 keys | case |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bunch | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pocket | det |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keys | nmod | ||
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Blunderbore | case |
| 13 | Blunderbore | Blunderbore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pocket | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jack | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | a great bunch of keys from the pocket of Blunderbore | next property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the castle | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location |
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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