English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 35
Now, after several days' travel, he came to a market-town in Wales, where he beheld a vast crowd of people gathered together.
Who acts: son, vast crowd, several days · What happens: come, behold, gather, travel · To what, where: market town
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 (son, vast crowd, several days), 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 | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 travel | case |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 days | case |
| 7 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 travel | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 13 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 town | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 market | punct |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Wales | case |
| 17 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 town | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beheld | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 beheld | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crowd | det |
| 23 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crowd | amod |
| 24 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gathered | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 crowd | nmod |
| 27 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beheld | ccomp |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 gathered | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | son | a market town in Wales | after several days's travel; now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | behold | past | son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gather | past | a vast crowd of people | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | travel | several days | nom travel «act intransitive»: poss=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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