English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 117
“Father,” said Jack, “can you lodge a benighted traveller that has lost his way?”
Who acts: Father, you · What happens: say, lodge, benight, lose · To what, where: benighted traveller · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Father, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lodge | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lodge | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lodge | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 lodge | nsubj |
| 11 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 traveller | det |
| 13 | benighted | benight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 traveller | amod |
| 14 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lodge | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 traveller | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 lodge | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lodge in a quote | can | you | a benighted traveller | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme traveller=Location | ||||
| 3 | benight in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a benighted traveller | tree rules |
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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