The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 60

When Jack was seated the hermit thus addressed him: “My son, on the top of this mountain is an enchanted castle, kept by the giant Galligantus and a vile magician.

Who acts: son · What happens: seat, address, enchant, be, keep · To what, where: Jack, enchanted castle

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 (son), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 seated	mark
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seated	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	aux:pass
4	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 addressed	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hermit	det
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obj
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 addressed	advmod
8	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 addressed	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 castle	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 castle	punct
12	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 castle	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 top	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountain	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 mountain	det
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 castle	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 castle	det
23	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 castle	amod
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 addressed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
26	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 castle	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 Galligantus	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Galligantus	det
29	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Galligantus	amod
30	Galligantus	Galligantus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 magician	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 magician	det
33	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 magician	amod
34	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 castle	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 addressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive		Jack			tree rules
2	address	past			Jack	thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination
3	enchant in a quote	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	My son	a enchanted castle and a vile magician			tree rules
5	keep in a quote	participle		a enchanted castle and a vile magician not said here		by the giant Galligantus	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by galligantus=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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