The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 69
The castle vanished away like smoke, and the head of the giant Galligantus was then sent to King Arthur.
Who acts: castle · What happens: vanish away, send · To what, where: head, King Arthur
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 (castle), 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 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 vanished | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 smoke | case |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Galligantus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Galligantus | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Galligantus | amod |
| 14 | Galligantus | Galligantus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux:pass |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sent | advmod |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Arthur | case |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Arthur | compound |
| 20 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish away | past | the castle | like smoke; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the head of the giant Galligantus | King Arthur | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to arthur=Destination |
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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