The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 50
Jack alighted from his horse, and tying him to an oak tree, put on his invisible coat, under which he carried his sword of sharpness.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: alight, tie, put, carry · To what, where: Jack, invisible coat, sword
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 alighted | nsubj |
| 2 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 alighted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tying | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tying | cc |
| 8 | tying | tie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 alighted | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tying | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tying | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 coat | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coat | amod |
| 19 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 carried | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | nsubj |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sword | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sharpness | case |
| 28 | sharpness | sharpness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sword | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 alighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | Jack | from Jack's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tie | gerund | Jack not said here | Jack | to a oak tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | put | participle | Jack's invisible coat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | |||||
| 4 | carry | past | Jack | Jack's sword of sharpness | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
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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