English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 123
Jack gave the old man his hand, and promised that in the morning he would venture his life to free the lady.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: give, promise, venture · To what, where: old man, life · 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 (Jack), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 venture | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 venture | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 venture | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 venture | aux |
| 17 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 venture | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 free | mark |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 venture | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lady | det |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 free | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jack | the old man Jack's hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Jack not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | venture | would | Jack | Jack's life | morning | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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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