English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 3
In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge giant named Cormoran.
Who acts: huge giant · What happens: keep, name · To what, where: Mount, huge giant
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 (huge giant), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mount | det |
| 5 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Cornwall | case |
| 7 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mount | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 giant | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 giant | amod |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 giant | acl |
| 15 | Cormoran | Cormoran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 named | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | a huge giant | the Mount of Cornwall | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a huge giant not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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