English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 15
Then, when he saw they were black in the face, he slid down the rope, and drawing his sword, slew them both.
Who acts: Jack, ropes · What happens: see, be, slide down, draw, slay · To what, where: face, rope, sword, ropes · 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, ropes), 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 black | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 black | cop |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 black | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slid | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slid | nsubj |
| 14 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 slid | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slid | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slew | cc |
| 20 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 slew | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawing | punct |
| 24 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slew | obj |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 slew | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jack | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ropes = rope | the face | black property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slide down | past | Jack | the rope | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Agent | ||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | Jack's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slay | past | Jack not said here | ropes = rope | 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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