English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 113
Jack at length got a cart-rope and cast it over the two heads of the giant, and drew him ashore by a team of horses, and then cut off both his heads with his sword of sharpness, and sent them to King Arthur.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, cast, draw, cut off, send · To what, where: cart rope, length, two heads, Jack, heads, King Arthur
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), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jack | nmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 6 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rope | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cart | punct |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cast | cc |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cast | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heads | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 heads | nummod |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cast | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heads | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drew | cc |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | obj |
| 23 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 21 drew | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 team | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 team | det |
| 26 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 horses | case |
| 28 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 team | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cut | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cut | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 cut | advmod |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 drew | parataxis |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 cut | compound:prt |
| 34 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 heads | det:predet |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 heads | nmod:poss |
| 36 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 cut | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 sword | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 sword | nmod:poss |
| 39 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cut | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 sharpness | case |
| 41 | sharpness | sharpness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sword | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sent | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sent | cc |
| 44 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sent | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Arthur | case |
| 47 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Arthur | compound |
| 48 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sent | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack at length | a cart rope | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cast | infinitive | Jack at length not said here | length | the two heads of the giant | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Jack at length not said here | Jack | by a team of horses; ashore property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | cut off | participle | Jack's heads | then | with Jack's sword of sharpness | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | send | past | Jack at length not said here | heads = head | King Arthur | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to arthur=Destination |
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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