The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 53
The knight and his lady thanked Jack for their deliverance, and invited him to their house, to receive a proper reward for his services.
Who acts: knight, knights, Jack · What happens: thank, invite, receive, deliver, service · To what, where: Jack, proper reward
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 (knight, knights, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lady | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | conj |
| 6 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thanked | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 deliverance | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 invited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 invited | cc |
| 13 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thanked | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 invited | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 invited | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receive | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 receive | mark |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 invited | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 reward | det |
| 22 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reward | amod |
| 23 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 services | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 services | nmod:poss |
| 26 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 receive | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the knight and Jack's lady | Jack | for knights's deliverance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jack=Theme for deliverance=Attribute | |||
| 2 | invite | past | Jack | to knights's house | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | a proper reward | for Jack's services | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deliver | knights = knight | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | service | Jack | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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