English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 38
They came, in such great numbers that before night he had only twopence left for himself.
Who acts: debts, prince · What happens: come, have, leave · To what, where: such great numbers, twopence
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 (debts, prince), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 numbers | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 numbers | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 numbers | amod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 numbers | amod |
| 7 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 numbers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 twopence | advmod |
| 14 | twopence | twopence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 twopence | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | debts = debt | such great numbers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | prince | such great numbers | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | twopence not said here | for prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for himself=Recipient |
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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