English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 5

Now Jack, about four months afterwards, walking near this wood in his journey to Wales, being weary, seated himself near a pleasant fountain and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: walk, be, seat, fall, journey · To what, where: wood, Jack, pleasant fountain

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), 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	22 seated	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 months	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 four	advmod
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 months	nummod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Jack	conj
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 months	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walking	punct
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Jack	acl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 journey	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 journey	nmod:poss
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Wales	case
17	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 journey	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 weary	punct
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 weary	cop
20	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jack	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jack	punct
22	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 seated	obj
24	near	near	ADP	_	27 fountain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fountain	det
26	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fountain	amod
27	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seated	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seated	conj
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 fell	advmod
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fell	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	Jack and four months not said here		this wood	in Jack's journey to Wales	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near wood=Trajectory
2	is	gerund	Jack and four months not said here			weary property	tree rules
3	seat	past	Jack and four months	Jack	a pleasant fountain		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	fall	past	Jack and four months not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	journey		Jack			to Wales	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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