English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 5

He lived in a cave in the midst of the Mount, and whenever he wanted food he would wade over to the main-land, where he would furnish himself with whatever came in his way.

Who acts: Mount, whatever · What happens: live, want, wade over, furnish, come · To what, where: cave, food, main land, Mount, way

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 (Mount, whatever), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 midst	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 midst	det
8	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Mount	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mount	det
11	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 midst	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wade	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wade	cc
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 wanted	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wade	advcl
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wanted	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wade	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wade	aux
20	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lived	parataxis
21	over	over	ADV	_	20 wade	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 land	det
24	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 land	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 main	punct
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wade	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 furnish	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 furnish	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 furnish	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 furnish	aux
31	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wade	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 furnish	obj
33	with	with	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 furnish	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Mount		a cave	in the midst of the Mount	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location
2	want	past	Mount	food		whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
3	wade over	would	Mount		the main land	over property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination
4	furnish	would	Mount	Mount			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
5	come	past	whatever		Mount's way		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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