English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 4
This giant was the lord of an enchanted castle situated in the midst of a lonesome wood.
Who acts: giant · What happens: be, enchant, situate · To what, where: lord, enchanted castle, midst
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 (giant), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lord | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lord | det |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 castle | amod |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | nmod |
| 10 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 castle | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 situated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 16 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wood | compound |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 midst | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this giant | the lord | of a enchanted castle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | situate | participle | a enchanted castle not said here | the midst of a lonesome wood | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in midst=Destination |
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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