English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 60
Jack then returned, and let the giant out of the vault, who asked what he should give him for keeping the castle from destruction.
Who acts: Jack, vault · What happens: return, let, ask, give, keep · To what, where: giant, vault, castle, destruction · 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, vault), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 returned | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 vault | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vault | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vault | det |
| 12 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vault | acl:relcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 give | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 keeping | mark |
| 22 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 give | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeping | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 destruction | case |
| 26 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Jack | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Jack not said here | the giant | the vault | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the vault | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | should | Jack | giant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | gerund | Jack not said here | the castle | destruction | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer castle=Beneficiary from destruction=Eventuality |
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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