English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 23
Jack then filled up the pit with earth, and went to search the cave, which he found contained much treasure.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: fill up, go, search, contain · To what, where: pit, cave
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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 filled | advmod |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 filled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pit | det |
| 6 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 contained | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 contained | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 contained | aux:pass |
| 20 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cave | acl:relcl |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 treasure | amod |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contained | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill up | past | Jack | the pit | then | with earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pit=Patient with earth=Instrument | ||
| 2 | go | past | Jack not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the cave | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cave=Location | ||||
| 4 | contain | past · passive | the cave | tree rules |
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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