The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 48
He traveled over high hills, and on the third day he came to a large and spacious forest through which his road lay.
Who acts: Jack, road · What happens: travel, come, lay · To what, where: high hills, large forest
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, road), 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 traveled | nsubj |
| 2 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 high | advmod |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hills | amod |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 traveled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traveled | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spacious | cc |
| 18 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 large | conj |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lay | obl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 road | nmod:poss |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forest | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Jack | high hills | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Jack | a large forest | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lay | present | Jack's road | a large forest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through which=Destination |
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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