The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 13
Jack thanked her, and sat down in the chariot with her.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: thank, sit down · To what, where: Fairy, chariot
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. 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 | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sat | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chariot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chariot | det |
| 10 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Jack | Fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Jack not said here | the chariot | with Fairy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chariot=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 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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