The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 20
“Ladies,” said Jack, “I have put an end to the monster and his wicked brother; and I give you this castle and all the riches it contains, to make some amends for the dreadful pains you have felt.”
Who acts: Ladies, castle, you · What happens: say, put, give, contain, make, feel · To what, where: end, castle, you, riches, amends, dreadful pains · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ladies, castle, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ladies | punct |
| 2 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ladies | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ladies | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 monster | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monster | det |
| 16 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brother | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brother | amod |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 monster | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 riches | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 riches | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 riches | det |
| 31 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 castle | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 contains | nsubj |
| 33 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 riches | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 amends | det |
| 38 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 pains | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pains | det |
| 41 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pains | amod |
| 42 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 make | obl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 felt | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 felt | aux |
| 45 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 pains | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ladies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | present · perfect | Ladies = lady | a end | to the monster and Jack's wicked brother | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | Ladies = lady | this castle and all riches | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient castle=Theme | |||
| 4 | contain in a quote | present | castle | all riches not said here | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rich=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Ladies = lady not said here | some amends | for the dreadful pains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for pain=Asset | |||
| 6 | feel in a quote | present · perfect | you | the dreadful pains not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/54/20/