The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 71
Jack then went up to the King, and gave his Majesty an account of all his fierce battles.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go up, give, account, battle · To what, where: account, Majesty, fierce battles
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 account | det |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 battles | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 battles | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 battles | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battles | amod |
| 19 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 account | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Jack | then | to the King | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | give | past | Jack not said here | a account of Jack's fierce battles | Jack's Majesty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient account=Theme | |||
| 3 | account | Jack's fierce battles | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | battle | Jack | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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