English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 39
Now Jack the Giant-Killer, coming that way, was so taken with the generosity of the prince, that he desired to be his servant.
Who acts: prince · What happens: come, take, desire, be · To what, where: way, Jack, servant
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Jack | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Killer | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Killer | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Giant | punct |
| 6 | Killer | Killer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Jack | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 taken | advmod |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 generosity | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 generosity | det |
| 17 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 generosity | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 desired | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 desired | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 desired | nsubj |
| 24 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 servant | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 servant | cop |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servant | nmod:poss |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 desired | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | that way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | Jack | with the generosity of the prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince's servant | tree rules |
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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