English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 121

And though many knights have tried to break the enchantment, and work her deliverance, yet no one could accomplish it, on account of two dreadful griffins which are placed at the castle gate and which destroy every one who comes near.

Who acts: one, Galligantua · What happens: try, break, work, accomplish, place, destroy · To what, where: many knights, enchantment, deliverance, account, two dreadful griffins, castle gate

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 (one, Galligantua), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 tried	mark
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knights	amod
4	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tried	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	aux
6	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enchantment	det
10	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 work	cc
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 break	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 deliverance	nmod:poss
15	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 work	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 accomplish	punct
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	21 accomplish	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accomplish	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 accomplish	aux
21	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 break	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 accomplish	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 account	punct
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 account	case
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accomplish	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 griffins	case
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 griffins	nummod
28	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 griffins	amod
29	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 account	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 placed	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 placed	aux:pass
32	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 griffins	acl:relcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 gate	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gate	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gate	compound
36	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 placed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 destroy	cc
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 destroy	nsubj
39	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 placed	conj
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 destroy	obj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 comes	nsubj
43	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 one	acl:relcl
44	near	near	ADV	_	43 comes	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present · perfect · passive		many knights			tree rules
2	break not said to happen	to-infinitive		the enchantment			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient
3	work	infinitive		Galligantua's deliverance			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent deliverance=Material
4	accomplish	could	no one	deliverance	account of two dreadful griffins		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	place	present · passive		two dreadful griffins	the castle gate		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination
6	destroy	present		every one			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	come	present	every one			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	deliver		Galligantua				nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	account			two dreadful griffins			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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