The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 6
There he dug a pit twenty-two feet deep and twenty broad.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: dig · To what, where: pit
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 dug | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pit | det |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pit | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 twenty | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dug | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 broad | cc |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 broad | nummod |
| 13 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deep | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | Jack | a pit | there | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=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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