English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 29
With that, greatly wondering, the giant led Jack to breakfast, bringing him a bowl containing four gallons of hasty pudding.
Who acts: giant, bowl · What happens: wonder, lead, bring, contain · To what, where: Jack, breakfast, bowl, four gallons
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 (giant, bowl), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 led | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 wondering | advmod |
| 5 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 that | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 breakfast | case |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bringing | punct |
| 14 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 led | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bringing | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bowl | det |
| 17 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bringing | obj |
| 18 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 bowl | acl |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 gallons | nummod |
| 20 | gallons | gallon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 containing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pudding | case |
| 22 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pudding | amod |
| 23 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gallons | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the giant not said here | greatly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the giant | Jack | breakfast | with that | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme to breakfast=Destination | ||
| 3 | bring | gerund | the giant not said here | a bowl | Jack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bowl=Theme | |||
| 4 | contain | gerund | a bowl not said here | four gallons of hasty pudding | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gallon=Theme |
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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