English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 7
Without ado, he took Jack on his shoulders and carried him towards his castle.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: Jack, shoulders, castle
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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 ado | case |
| 2 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ado | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shoulders | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jack | Jack | Jack's shoulders | without ado | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 2 | carry | past | Jack not said here | Jack | Jack's castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards castle=Destination |
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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