English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 114
After some time spent in mirth and pastime, Jack, taking leave of the knights and ladies, set out for new adventures.
What happens: spend, take, set out · To what, where: time, mirth, leave
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mirth | case |
| 6 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pastime | cc |
| 8 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mirth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jack | punct |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mirth | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spent | advcl |
| 13 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knights | det |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leave | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ladies | cc |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knights | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 adventures | case |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 adventures | amod |
| 24 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | some time not said here | mirth and pastime | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | leave of the knights and ladies | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | participle | time | for new adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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