English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 18
This said he presented them with the keys, and so proceeded on his journey to Wales.
Who acts: This, Jack · What happens: say, present, proceed, journey · To what, where: ladies, journey · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 keys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keys | det |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proceeded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 proceeded | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 proceeded | advmod |
| 12 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proceeded | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Wales | case |
| 17 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 journey | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | present | past | Jack | ladies = lady | with the keys | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with key=Theme | |||
| 3 | proceed | participle | This not said here | Jack's journey to Wales | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | journey | Jack | to Wales | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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