English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 122
But you, my son, may pass by them undiscovered, where on the gates of the castle you will find engraven in large letters how the spell may be broken.”
Who acts: you · What happens: pass, find, break · To what, where: engraven, gates, spell
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 pass | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pass | aux |
| 8 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pass | obl |
| 11 | undiscovered | undiscovered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pass | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 find | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 gates | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gates | det |
| 16 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 find | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 undiscovered | parataxis |
| 23 | engraven | engraven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 letters | case |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 letters | amod |
| 26 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 engraven | nmod |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 broken | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spell | det |
| 29 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 broken | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 broken | aux:pass |
| 32 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 letters | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pass | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | may | you | by Knights = knight; undiscovered property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | engraven | the gates | of the castle; in large letters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engraven=Topic | ||
| 3 | break | may · passive | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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