The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 70
The knights and ladies rested that night at the old man’s hermitage, and next day they set out for the Court.
Who acts: knights · What happens: rest, set out · To what, where: hermitage
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 (knights), 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 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ladies | cc |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knights | conj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hermitage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rested | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Court | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Court | det |
| 23 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the knights and ladies | the old man's hermitage | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at hermitage=Location | |||
| 2 | set out | past | knights = knight | day | for the Court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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