English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 26
The next morning Jack, laughing in his sleeve, gave him hearty thanks for his night's lodging.
What happens: laugh, give · To what, where: hearty thanks, Jack
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughing | punct |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sleeve | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laughing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thanks | amod |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 lodging | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 night | nmod:poss |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 night | case |
| 19 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanks | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | in Jack's sleeve | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sleeve=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | hearty thanks | Jack | morning | for Jack's night's lodging | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thanks=Theme for lodging=Asset |
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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