The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 59
Jack then proceeded on his journey, and traveled over hills and dales, till arriving at the foot of a high mountain he knocked at the door of a lonely house, when an old man let him in.
Who acts: Jack, old man · What happens: proceed, travel, arrive, knock, let in, journey · To what, where: journey, hills, foot, high mountain, door, 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, old man), 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 | 3 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 proceeded | advmod |
| 3 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proceeded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 traveled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 traveled | cc |
| 9 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 proceeded | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 traveled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dales | cc |
| 13 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hills | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arriving | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 arriving | mark |
| 16 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 traveled | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arriving | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mountain | amod |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knocked | nsubj |
| 25 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 door | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knocked | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 31 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 house | amod |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 door | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 let | advmod |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 let | nsubj |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 arriving | parataxis |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 let | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 let | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | Jack | Jack's journey | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | travel | participle | Jack not said here | hills and dales | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | arrive | gerund | Jack not said here | the foot of a high mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | knock | past | Jack | a high mountain not said here | the door of a lonely house | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 5 | let in | infinitive | a old man | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | Jack | nom journey «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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