English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 8
One day Jack happened to be at the town-hall when the magistrates were sitting in council about the Giant.
Who acts: Jack, magistrates · What happens: happen, be, sit · To what, where: town hall, council
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, magistrates), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hall | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hall | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hall | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hall | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | advcl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 sitting | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 magistrates | det |
| 14 | magistrates | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | aux |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hall | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 council | case |
| 18 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 21 Giant | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Giant | det |
| 21 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sitting | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Jack | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the town hall | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | the magistrates | council | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=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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