English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 2
“Here's the right valiant Cornish man, Who slew the giant Cormoran.”
Who acts: right valiant Cornish man · What happens: be, slay · To what, where: giant Cormoran
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 (right valiant Cornish man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 6 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | Cornish | Cornish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 man | compound |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slew | punct |
| 10 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 slew | nsubj |
| 11 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cormoran | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Cormoran | amod |
| 14 | Cormoran | Cormoran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slew | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the right valiant Cornish man | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay in a quote | past | the right valiant Cornish man | the giant Cormoran | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cormoran=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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