English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 126
When he had got beyond them, he found upon the gates of the castle a golden trumpet hung by a silver chain, under which these lines were engraved:
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, find, hang, engrave · To what, where: golden trumpet, castle
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gates | det |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gates | nmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trumpet | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trumpet | amod |
| 18 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 engraved | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 trumpet | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 chain | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chain | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chain | compound |
| 23 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 engraved | punct |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 engraved | obl |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 lines | det |
| 28 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 engraved | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 engraved | aux:pass |
| 30 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 castle | acl:relcl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Jack | beyond griffins = griffin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Jack | upon the gates of the castle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | a golden trumpet not said here | by a silver chain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location | ||||
| 4 | engrave | past · passive | a golden trumpet | the castle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme under which=Destination |
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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