English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 132
Whereupon, as a reward for his good services, the king prevailed upon the duke to bestow his daughter in marriage on honest Jack.
Who acts: king, Jack · What happens: prevail, bestow, service · To what, where: daughter, marriage
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 (king, 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 reward | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whereupon | appos |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 services | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 services | nmod:poss |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 services | amod |
| 9 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reward | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prevailed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prevailed | nsubj |
| 13 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 duke | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duke | det |
| 16 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prevailed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bestow | mark |
| 18 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 prevailed | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bestow | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bestow | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Jack | case |
| 24 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Jack | amod |
| 25 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bestow | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whereupon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | the king | upon the duke | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon duke=Location | ||||
| 2 | bestow | to-infinitive | the king not said here | Jack's daughter | marriage | on honest Jack | tree rules | ||
| 3 | service | Jack | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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