English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 100
The castle was situated in the midst of a small island surrounded by a moat thirty feet deep and twenty feet wide, over which lay a drawbridge.
What happens: situate, surround, lie · To what, where: castle, midst, small island, drawbridge
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 situated | aux:pass |
| 4 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 midst | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midst | det |
| 7 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 island | amod |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 midst | nmod |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 island | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 moat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moat | det |
| 15 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wide | cc |
| 20 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 feet | nummod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deep | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 situated | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 drawbridge | det |
| 28 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | past · passive | the castle | the midst of a small island | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in midst=Destination | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | a small island not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | a drawbridge | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drawbridge=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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