The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 1
Jack made another journey up the Beanstalk to the Giant’s castle one day while his mother had gone to market; but first he dyed his hair and disguised himself.
Who acts: Jack, mother · What happens: make, go, dye, disguise · To what, where: journey, market, hair, Jack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, mother), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 journey | det |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 Beanstalk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Beanstalk | det |
| 7 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 10 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Giant | case |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 gone | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 market | case |
| 21 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 dyed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 dyed | cc |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 dyed | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dyed | nsubj |
| 26 | dyed | dye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hair | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dyed | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 disguised | cc |
| 30 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dyed | conj |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 disguised | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Jack | another journey | day | up the Beanstalk; to the Giant castle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | ||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | Jack's mother | market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dye | past | Jack | Jack's hair | first property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 4 | disguise | past | Jack not said here | Jack | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination |
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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