English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 12

So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in the beginning of a dark winter's evening, when he fell to work, and before morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly as broad, covering it over with long sticks and straw.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, go over, fall, work, dig, cover over · To what, where: horn, beginning, pit, evening

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horn	det
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shovel	punct
7	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pickaxe	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pickaxe	cc
10	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Mount	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mount	det
17	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 beginning	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beginning	det
20	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 evening	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 winter	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 winter	amod
24	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 evening	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 winter	case
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beginning	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 fell	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 work	mark
32	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fell	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dug	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dug	cc
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 morning	case
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dug	obl
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dug	aux
38	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pit	det
40	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dug	obj
41	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 pit	flat
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 twenty	punct
43	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 feet	nummod
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 deep	obl:unmarked
45	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dug	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 broad	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 broad	cc
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	50 broad	advmod
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 broad	advmod
50	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 covering	punct
52	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 broad	advcl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 covering	obj
54	over	over	ADP	_	52 covering	compound:prt
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 sticks	case
56	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sticks	amod
57	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 covering	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 straw	cc
59	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sticks	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Jack	a horn and shovel		pickaxe obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus
2	go over	past	Jack not said here		in the beginning of a dark winter's evening	to the Mount; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in beginning=Location
3	fall	past	Jack				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	work	to-infinitive	Jack not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dig	past · perfect	Jack not said here	a pit	morning		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme
6	cover over	gerund	Jack not said here	pit		with long sticks and straw	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with stick=Theme
7	begin			a dark winter's evening			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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