The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 20
But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant’s castle, and all his adventures.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: put, tell, be, adventure · To what, where: brown hen, hen, Giant castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hen | det |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hen | amod |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 castle | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 castle | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 castle | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 castle | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 20 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 castle | amod |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Giant | case |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 adventures | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 adventures | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 adventures | det:predet |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 27 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 castle | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jack | the brown hen | before hen | down property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme before she=Destination | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack not said here | hen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Jack | the Giant castle and Jack's adventures | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | adventure | Jack | nom adventure «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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