English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 1
and presented him with a sword and a belt, on which were written these words embroidered in letters of gold:
What happens: present, write, embroider, letter · To what, where: him, words, letters, gold
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: 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 presented | cc |
| 2 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 presented | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presented | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 belt | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 belt | det |
| 9 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sword | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 written | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 presented | advcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 written | obj |
| 17 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 words | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 letters | case |
| 19 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 embroidered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 letters | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | him = he | with a sword and a belt | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | this words | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: word=Theme on which=Destination | |||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | this words not said here | letters of gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination | ||||
| 4 | letter | gold | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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