The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 64
On the castle gate he found a golden trumpet, under which were written these lines:
Who acts: Jack · What happens: find, write · To what, where: golden trumpet, castle gate, lines
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gate | compound |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trumpet | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trumpet | amod |
| 9 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 written | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 trumpet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 lines | det |
| 16 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 written | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Jack | a golden trumpet | the castle gate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Topic | |||
| 2 | write | past · passive | this lines | a golden trumpet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: line=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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