English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 127
“Whoever shall this trumpet blow, Shall soon the giant overthrow, And break the black enchantment straight; So all shall be in happy state.”
What happens: break, be · To what, where: black enchantment, happy state
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 2 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | aux |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 blow | det |
| 5 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | compound |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shall | punct |
| 8 | Shall | Shall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | appos |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 overthrow | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 overthrow | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 overthrow | amod |
| 12 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Shall | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 break | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 break | cc |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blow | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 enchantment | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enchantment | amod |
| 18 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 break | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 state | punct |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 27 state | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 state | det |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 state | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 state | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 state | case |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 state | amod |
| 27 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 state | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | infinitive | the black enchantment | straight property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | all happy state | tree rules |
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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