English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 42
When the sun got low, the king's son said: “Jack, since we have no money, where can we lodge this night?”
Who acts: sun, son, we · What happens: get, say, have, lodge · To what, where: Jack, money · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun, son, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jack | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jack | punct |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 money | det |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lodge | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 lodge | advmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 lodge | aux |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 lodge | nsubj |
| 25 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | conj |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lodge | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the sun | low property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the king's son | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lodge in a quote | can | we | night | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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