English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 9

He asked: “What reward will be given to the man who kills Cormoran?”

Who acts: Jack, man · What happens: ask, give, kill · To what, where: reward, man, Cormoran · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man), 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct
5	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 reward	det
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 kills	nsubj
14	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 kills	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Jack			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future · passive		what reward	the man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to man=Recipient
3	kill in a quote	present	the man	Cormoran		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cormoran=Theme

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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