English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 14
Then he drew the other ends across a beam, and pulled with all his might, so that he throttled them.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: draw, pull, throttle · To what, where: other ends, beam, ropes
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ends | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ends | amod |
| 6 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 beam | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beam | det |
| 9 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drew | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 might | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 might | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 might | nmod:poss |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 throttled | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 throttled | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 throttled | nsubj |
| 21 | throttled | throttle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 throttled | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Jack | the other ends | a beam | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||
| 2 | pull | participle | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | throttle | past | Jack | ropes = rope | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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