English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 10
After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving him there while he went to fetch another giant, his brother, living in the same wood, who might share in the meal on Jack.
Who acts: giant, Jack, same wood · What happens: lock, leave, go, fetch, live, share · To what, where: poor Jack, immense chamber, Jack, giant, same wood, meal
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 (giant, Jack, same wood), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 giant | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 giant | acl |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Jack | amod |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 locked | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 10 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chamber | amod |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 locked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 locked | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaving | obj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 leaving | advmod |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leaving | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fetch | mark |
| 20 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 giant | det |
| 22 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brother | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetch | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 living | punct |
| 27 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 fetch | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wood | amod |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 living | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 share | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 share | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 share | aux |
| 35 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wood | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 meal | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 meal | det |
| 38 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 share | obl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 Jack | case |
| 40 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 meal | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | participle | the giant not said here | poor Jack | a immense chamber | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the giant not said here | Jack | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Jack | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fetch | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | another giant | Jack's brother obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | |||
| 5 | live | gerund | Jack not said here | the same wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 6 | share | might | the same wood | the meal on Jack | 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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