The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 26
Jack took off his clothes quickly, but though he was weary he could not go to sleep.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take off, be, not go · To what, where: clothes, sleep
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 weary | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weary | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 weary | cop |
| 12 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Jack | Jack's clothes | quickly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Jack | weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not go | could | Jack | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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