English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 34
The king did his best to persuade his son from it, but in vain; so at last gave way and the prince set out with two horses, one loaded with money, the other for himself to ride upon.
Who acts: king, one, son · What happens: do, persuade, give, set out, load, ride · To what, where: best, son, order, way, last
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 (king, one, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 best | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 persuade | mark |
| 7 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 persuade | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 persuade | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vain | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 vain | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 gave | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gave | obl |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 prince | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 way | conj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 way | acl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 horses | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 horses | nummod |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 loaded | punct |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 loaded | nsubj |
| 32 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gave | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 money | case |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 loaded | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 other | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 other | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 money | nmod |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 ride | mark |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 ride | nsubj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 ride | mark |
| 41 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 other | advcl |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 ride | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | king's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king's son | order | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | way and the prince | last | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at last=Asset | ||||
| 4 | set out | participle | way and the prince not said here | with two horses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | load | participle | one | with money the other | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with money=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ride | to-infinitive | son | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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