English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 33
Now, it happened in these days that King Arthur's only son asked his father to give him a large sum of money, in order that he might go and seek his fortune in the principality of Wales, where lived a beautiful lady possessed with seven evil spirits.
Who acts: it, only son, days, son · What happens: happen, ask, give, go, seek, live · To what, where: days, father, large sum, son, order, fortune
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 (it, only son, days, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 days | det |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 asked | obj |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Arthur | compound |
| 10 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Arthur | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 days | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sum | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sum | amod |
| 22 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sum | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 order | case |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 go | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 order | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seek | cc |
| 33 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 go | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seek | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 principality | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 principality | det |
| 38 | principality | principality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seek | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Wales | case |
| 40 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 principality | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lived | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 lived | advmod |
| 43 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 principality | parataxis |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 lady | det |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 lady | amod |
| 46 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lived | obj |
| 47 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 lady | acl |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 spirits | case |
| 49 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 spirits | nummod |
| 50 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 spirits | amod |
| 51 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 possessed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King Arthur's only son | this days | son's father | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | this days not said here | a large sum of money | son | order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sum=Theme | ||
| 4 | go | might | son | order not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | son not said here | son's fortune | the principality of Wales | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in principality=Location | |||
| 6 | live | past | a beautiful lady | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location | |||||
| 7 | possess | participle | a beautiful lady not said here | with seven evil spirits | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 8 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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