English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 174
So at last at first Turkey-lurkey went through the dark hole into the cave.
Who acts: first Turkey lurkey · What happens: go · To what, where: dark hole
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 (first Turkey lurkey), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 last | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 lurkey | amod |
| 6 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lurkey | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Turkey | punct |
| 8 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | advcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hole | amod |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | first Turkey lurkey | the dark hole | into the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location into cave=Destination |
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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