English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 48
Jack then rode away at full speed, and coming to the gate of the castle, he knocked so loud that he made the neighbouring hills resound.
Who acts: Jack, neighbouring hills · What happens: ride away, come, knock, make, resound · To what, where: full speed, gate
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, neighbouring hills), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speed | amod |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 coming | cc |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 gate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocked | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knocked | nsubj |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 loud | advmod |
| 21 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knocked | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 loud | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hills | det |
| 26 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hills | compound |
| 27 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 resound | nsubj |
| 28 | resound | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | Jack | full speed | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | come | gerund | Jack not said here | the gate of the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | Jack | loud property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | resound | present | the neighbouring hills | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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