English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 66
He soon overtook his master and they quickly arrived at the house of the lady the prince sought, who, finding the prince to be a suitor, prepared a splendid banquet for him.
Who acts: Jack, shoes, prince · What happens: overtake, arrive, seek, find, be, prepare · To what, where: master, house, lady, prince, suitor, splendid banquet
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, shoes, prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overtook | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 overtook | advmod |
| 3 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtook | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 arrived | advmod |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtook | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lady | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lady | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finding | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 finding | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 finding | punct |
| 22 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sought | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 finding | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 suitor | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 suitor | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 suitor | det |
| 28 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 finding | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 prepared | punct |
| 30 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtook | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 banquet | det |
| 32 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 banquet | amod |
| 33 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prepared | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 prepared | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Jack | Jack's master | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | shoes = shoe | the house of the lady | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | seek | past | the prince | the lady not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | the prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | a suitor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prepare | past | a splendid banquet | for Jack | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent banquet=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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