The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 35
Early in the morning Jack put a bold face upon the matter, and walked into the giant’s room to thank him for his lodging.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: put, walk, thank · To what, where: bold face, matter, room, Jack
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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 put | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 8 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 face | amod |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 thank | mark |
| 22 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 walked | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thank | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 lodging | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thank | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jack | a bold face | the matter | morning | early property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme upon matter=Destination | |
| 2 | walk | past | Jack not said here | into the giant's room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack | for Jack's lodging | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for lodging=Attribute |
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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