English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 16
Then, taking the giant's keys, and unlocking the rooms, he found three fair ladies tied by the hair of their heads, almost starved to death.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, unlock, find, tie, starve · To what, where: keys, rooms, three fair ladies, heads
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 taking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keys | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 7 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unlocking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 unlocking | cc |
| 10 | unlocking | unlock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 taking | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rooms | det |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 unlocking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 ladies | nummod |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ladies | amod |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obj |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ladies | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hair | det |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tied | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 heads | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heads | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hair | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 starved | punct |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 starved | advmod |
| 28 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 heads | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 starved | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Jack not said here | the giant's keys | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||
| 2 | unlock | gerund | Jack not said here | the rooms | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Jack | three fair ladies | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tie | participle | three fair ladies not said here | by the hair of ropes's heads | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | starve | participle | ropes's heads not said here | to death; almost property | 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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