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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

nsubjnsubjcopdetccompnsubjauxacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctcaseobldetnsubjconjobjxcomppunctccconjobjcasedetobladvmodexplacl:relcldetamodnsubjmarkacloblpunctrootJackPROPNsaidVERBhePRONwasAUXaDETtravelerNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXlostVERBhisPRONwayNOUN,PUNCTonADPwhichPRONtheDETgiantNOUNmadeVERBhimPRONwelcomeADJ,PUNCTandCCONJletVERBhimPRONintoADPaDETroomNOUNwhereADVtherePRONwasVERBaDETgoodADJbedNOUNtoPARTsleepVERBinADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 travelernsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 travelercop
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 travelerdet
6travelertravelerNOUNNumber=Sing2 saidccomp
7whowhoPRONPronType=Rel9 lostnsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 lostaux
9lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 traveleracl:relcl
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 waynmod:poss
11waywayNOUNNumber=Sing9 lostobj
12,,PUNCT_17 madepunct
13ononADP_14 whichcase
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 madeobl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 giantdet
16giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing17 madensubj
17mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 saidconj
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 madeobj
19welcomewelcomeADJDegree=Pos17 madexcomp
20,,PUNCT_22 letpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 letcc
22letletVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 madeconj
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 letobj
24intointoADP_26 roomcase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 roomdet
26roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing22 letobl
27wherewhereADVPronType=Rel29 wasadvmod
28theretherePRONPronType=Dem29 wasexpl
29wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 roomacl:relcl
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 beddet
31goodgoodADJDegree=Pos32 bedamod
32bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing29 wasnsubj
33totoPART_34 sleepmark
34sleepsleepVERBVerbForm=Inf32 bedacl
35ininADP_34 sleepobl
36..PUNCT_2 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastJackvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2is apastJacka travelertree rules
3losepast · perfecta travelerJack's wayvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
4makepastthe giantJackwelcome propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
5letpastthe giant not said hereJacka roomvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6bepasta good bedtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7sleep into-infinitivea good bed not said herevn 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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