English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 1
When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only son called Jack.
Who acts: good King Arthur, farmer · What happens: reign, live, have, call · To what, where: End, one son, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (good King Arthur, farmer), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 reigned | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Arthur | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Arthur | compound |
| 4 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reigned | nsubj |
| 5 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reigned | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | expl |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 End | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Land | det |
| 11 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 End | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Land | case |
| 13 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 End | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 county | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 county | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 county | det |
| 19 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Cornwall | case |
| 21 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 county | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 farmer | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 farmer | det |
| 24 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Cornwall | appos |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 son | nummod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 son | advmod |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 son | acl |
| 31 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | good King Arthur | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | past | there | near the Land's End of England | in the county of Cornwall | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in county=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | a farmer | one son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | one son not said here | Jack | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient |
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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