The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 21
He then very politely gave them the keys of the castle, and went further on his journey to Wales.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: give, go, journey · To what, where: keys, amends, journey
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gave | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 politely | advmod |
| 4 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keys | det |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keys | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 15 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Wales | case |
| 20 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 journey | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jack | the keys of the castle | amends = amend | then | politely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient key=Theme | |
| 2 | go | past | Jack not said here | Jack's journey to Wales | far property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | |||
| 3 | journey | Jack | to Wales | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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