English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 116
Here, late at night, he found a lonesome house, and knocked at the door, which was opened by an aged man with a head as white as snow.
Who acts: Jack, aged man · What happens: find, knock, open · To what, where: lonesome house, door
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, aged man), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
| 3 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knocked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knocked | cc |
| 14 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | aux:pass |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 door | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 head | det |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | nmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 white | advmod |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 snow | case |
| 32 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 white | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Jack | a lonesome house | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | |||
| 2 | knock | past | Jack not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past · passive | a aged man with a head | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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