English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 7
He had done this for many years, so that all Cornwall was in despair.
Who acts: Mount, all · What happens: do, be · To what, where: this
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, all), 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 | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 despair | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 despair | nsubj |
| 12 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 all | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 despair | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Mount | this | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | all | so despair | 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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