English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 43
But Jack replied: “Master, we'll do well enough, for I have an uncle lives within two miles of this place; he is a huge and monstrous giant with three heads; he'll fight five hundred men in armour, and make them to fly before him.”
Who acts: Jack, we, uncle, heads · What happens: reply, do, have, live, be, fight · To what, where: huge giant, hundred men, armour, heads · 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 (Jack, we, uncle, heads), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Master | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | parataxis |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 uncle | det |
| 18 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | conj |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 miles | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lives | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 miles | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 giant | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 giant | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 giant | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 giant | det |
| 30 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 giant | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 monstrous | cc |
| 32 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 huge | conj |
| 33 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 heads | case |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 heads | nummod |
| 36 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 giant | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 fight | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fight | nsubj |
| 39 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 fight | aux |
| 40 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 41 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 hundred | compound |
| 42 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 men | nummod |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 fight | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 armour | case |
| 45 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fight | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 make | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 make | cc |
| 48 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fight | conj |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 make | obj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 fly | mark |
| 51 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 make | xcomp |
| 52 | before | before | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 fly | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 fight | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | we | Master vocative; enough, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Jack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | a uncle | within two miles of this place | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Jack | a huge giant | with three heads | tree rules | |||
| 6 | fight in a quote | future | Jack | hundred men | armour | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | heads = head | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | heads = head not said here | before Jack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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