The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 5
Jack took a horn, a shovel, a pickaxe, his armor, and a dark lantern, and one winter’s evening he went to the mount.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, go · To what, where: horn, mount
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horn | det |
| 4 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shovel | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shovel | det |
| 7 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horn | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pickaxe | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pickaxe | det |
| 10 | pickaxe | pickaxe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horn | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 armor | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 armor | nmod:poss |
| 13 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horn | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lantern | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lantern | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lantern | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lantern | amod |
| 18 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 winter | nummod |
| 22 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 evening | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 winter | case |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 mount | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mount | det |
| 29 | mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jack | a horn and a shovel and a pickaxe and Jack's armor | a dark lantern obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Jack | the mount | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mount=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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