English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 115
Through many woods he passed, and came at length to the foot of a high mountain.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: pass, come · To what, where: many woods, length
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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 woods | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woods | amod |
| 3 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mountain | amod |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foot | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Jack | many woods | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Jack not said here | length | to the foot of a high mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location |
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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