English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 120

But above all, I grieve for a duke's daughter, whom they fetched from her father's garden, carrying her through the air in a burning chariot drawn by fiery dragons, when they secured her within the castle, and transformed her into a white hind.

Who acts: I, gentlemen · What happens: grieve, fetch, carry, burn, draw, secure · To what, where: all, garden, Galligantua, air, burning chariot, white hind

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 (I, gentlemen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 grieve	cc
2	above	above	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 grieve	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 grieve	nsubj
6	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 daughter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 duke	det
9	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 duke	case
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grieve	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetched	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 fetched	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fetched	nsubj
15	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieve	parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 garden	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 garden	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carrying	punct
22	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fetched	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carrying	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 chariot	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 chariot	det
29	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 chariot	amod
30	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obl
31	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 chariot	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 dragons	case
33	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dragons	amod
34	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drawn	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 secured	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 secured	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 secured	nsubj
38	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fetched	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 secured	obj
40	within	within	ADP	_	42 castle	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 castle	det
42	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 secured	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 transformed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 transformed	cc
45	transformed	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fetched	conj
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 transformed	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	50 hind	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 hind	det
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hind	amod
50	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 transformed	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	present	I		all	for a duke's daughter	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fetch	past	gentlemen = gentleman		Galligantua's father's garden		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from garden=Source
3	carry	gerund	gentlemen = gentleman not said here	Galligantua	the air	in a burning chariot	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in chariot=Location
4	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw	participle		a burning chariot not said here		by fiery dragons	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	secure	past	gentlemen = gentleman	Galligantua		within the castle	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition she=Theme
7	transform	past	gentlemen = gentleman not said here	Galligantua		into a white hind result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into hind=Result

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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