The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 22
As Jack had but little money, he went on as fast as possible.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, go on
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 money | cc |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 went | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 possible | mark |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fast | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | Jack | fast property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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