The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 25
Jack said he was a traveler who had lost his way, on which the giant made him welcome, and let him into a room where there was a good bed to sleep in.
Who acts: Jack, traveler, giant, good bed · What happens: say, be, lose, make, let, sleep in · To what, where: traveler, way, Jack, room · 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 (Jack, traveler, giant, good bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3879): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 traveler | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 traveler | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 traveler | det |
| 6 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 traveler | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 made | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 was | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 room | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bed | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bed | amod |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 was | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 bed | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 sleep | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Jack | a traveler | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | a traveler | Jack's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the giant | Jack | welcome property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 5 | let | past | the giant not said here | Jack | a room | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | be | past | a good bed | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sleep in | to-infinitive | a good bed not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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