English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 19

Jack made the best of his way by travelling as fast as he could, but lost his road, and was benighted, and could find any habitation until, coming into a narrow valley, he found a large house, and in order to get shelter took courage to knock at the gate.

Who acts: Jack, shelter · What happens: make, travel, lose, benight, find, come · To what, where: best, road, habitation, narrow valley, large house, courage

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, shelter), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 best	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 travelling	mark
9	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 travelling	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 could	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 could	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fast	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lost	cc
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 road	nmod:poss
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 benighted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 benighted	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 benighted	aux:pass
23	benighted	benight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 find	cc
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
27	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 benighted	parataxis
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 habitation	det
29	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 coming	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 coming	punct
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 find	advcl
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 valley	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 valley	det
35	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 valley	amod
36	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 found	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 house	det
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 house	amod
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 get	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 get	cc
45	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 get	mark
46	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 in	fixed
47	to	to	PART	_	48 get	mark
48	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
49	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 took	nsubj
50	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 get	ccomp
51	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 took	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 knock	mark
53	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 took	advcl
54	at	at	ADP	_	56 gate	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 gate	det
56	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 knock	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Jack	the best			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Product
2	travel	gerund	Jack not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lose	past	Jack not said here	Jack's road			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Eventuality
4	benight	past · passive					tree rules
5	find	could		any habitation			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitation=Topic
6	come	gerund			a narrow valley		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into valley=Initial_Location
7	find	past	Jack	a large house			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
8	get	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	take	past	shelter	courage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
10	knock	to-infinitive	shelter not said here			at the gate	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=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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