The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 3

He dwelt in a gloomy cavern on the top of the mountain, and used to wade over to the mainland in search of prey; when he would throw half a dozen oxen upon his back, and tie three times as many sheep and hogs round his waist, and march back to his own abode.

Who acts: Cornwall · What happens: dwell, use, wade over, throw, tie, march back · To what, where: gloomy cavern, search, dozen oxen, back, many sheep, prey

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 (Cornwall), 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	2 dwelt	nsubj
2	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cavern	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cavern	det
5	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cavern	amod
6	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelt	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelt	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mountain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountain	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dwelt	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wade	mark
17	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	over	over	ADP	_	17 wade	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mainland	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mainland	det
21	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wade	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 search	case
23	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wade	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 prey	case
25	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 search	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 throw	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 throw	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	aux
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dwelt	parataxis
31	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	33 dozen	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dozen	det
33	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 oxen	nummod
34	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 throw	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 back	nmod:poss
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tie	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tie	cc
40	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 throw	conj
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 times	nummod
42	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tie	obl:unmarked
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 many	advmod
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sheep	amod
45	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tie	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 hogs	cc
47	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sheep	conj
48	round	round	ADP	_	50 waist	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 waist	nmod:poss
50	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tie	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 march	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 march	cc
53	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 throw	conj
54	back	back	ADV	_	53 march	advmod
55	to	to	ADP	_	58 abode	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 abode	nmod:poss
57	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 abode	amod
58	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 march	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	Cornwall		a gloomy cavern		on the top of the mountain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location
2	use	past	Cornwall not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wade over	to-infinitive	Cornwall not said here		search of prey		to the mainland	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mainland=Destination
4	throw	would	Cornwall	dozen oxen	Cornwall's back			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ox=Theme upon back=Destination
5	tie	infinitive	Cornwall not said here	many sheep and hogs		time	round Cornwall's waist	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
6	march back	infinitive	Cornwall not said here				to Cornwall's own abode result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to abode=Result
7	search			prey				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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