The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 73
After this the King gave him a large estate, on which he and his lady lived the rest of their days in joy and contentment.
Who acts: King · What happens: give, live · To what, where: large estate, Jack, rest
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 (King), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gave | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 estate | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 estate | amod |
| 9 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lady | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lady | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 he | conj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 days | nmod:poss |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rest | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 days | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 contentment | cc |
| 26 | contentment | contentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | a large estate | Jack | after this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient estate=Theme | ||
| 2 | live | past | King | the rest of ladies's days in joy and contentment | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rest=Location |
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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