The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 7
He covered the top over so as to make it look like solid ground.
Who acts: Jack, top · What happens: cover over, make, look · To what, where: top
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, top), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 covered | nsubj |
| 2 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 covered | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 make | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 covered | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ground | amod |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover over | past | Jack | the top | over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent top=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | top | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | top not said here | like solid ground | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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