English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 86

They killed a thief, and sent the best part of it to feed the eagle on his journey over the seas, and had to carry Jack on his back.

Who acts: birds, eagle · What happens: kill, send, feed, have, carry, journey · To what, where: thief, best part, eagle, journey, Jack, back

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, eagle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 part	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feed	mark
14	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sent	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eagle	det
16	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feed	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 journey	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 journey	nmod:poss
19	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feed	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 seas	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 seas	det
22	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 carry	mark
27	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carry	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past	birds = bird	a thief				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme
2	send	past	birds = bird not said here	the best part of castle				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	feed	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here		the eagle	eagle's journey	over the seas	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient
4	have	past	birds = bird not said here					tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	Jack		eagle's back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme
6	journey		eagle					nom journey «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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